Jacque Fresco Quotes

As a man is, so he sees. As the eye is formed, such are its powers.

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.

Life's all about perceptions.

The knowable world is incomplete if seen from any one point of view, incoherent if seen from all points of view at once, and empty if seen from nowhere in particular.

But we shall not know the world by looking at it; we know it by looking at the hovering fly.

It all depends on the way you look at it. The point of view is everything in this world.

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face.

We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.

There are always two or three or four sides to every story.

Well, sanity, I suppose, is getting people to see the world your way.

I don't think you really can send an exact message, because any two viewers are so disparate, in terms of their backgrounds, their point of view, their histories, that there's no telling what that message might be.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Surely one of the most visible lessons taught by the twentieth century has been the existence, not so much of a number of different realities, but of a number of different lenses with which to see the same reality.

Wherever there is a conscious mind, there is a point of view.

I think perspective is a necessary, amazing thing.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

Anything can feed you, depending on the way you look at it.

The 'how' has a great effect on what we see. To say that 'what we see' is more important than 'how we see it' is to think that 'how' has been settled and fixed. When you realize this is not the case, you realize that 'how' often affects 'what' we see.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.

We can never be quite clear whether we are referring to the world as it is or to the world as we see it.

We see only that which we are.