Carson McCullers Quotes

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

I seek the truth.

You have to continue and discover the grammar of things, of what we can see.

Science is but an image of the truth.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking.

Science is nothing but perception.

What a man sees depends on what he looks at and what his previous experience has taught him to see.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

What transforms this world is - knowledge. Do you see what I mean? Nothing else can change anything in this world. Knowledge alone is capable of transforming the world, while at the same time leaving it exactly as it is. When you look at the world with knowledge, you realize that things are unchangeable and at the same time are constantly being transformed.

How you mean? How you mean? What you know about the team? You just know what you get told girl I see behind the scene

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower into a truth.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

Subject is known by what she sees.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.

The recognition of the false is already the arising of the real.

What men have seen they know. . . .