"The eye sees all, but the mind..." - Quote by William Shakespeare
The eye sees all, but the mind shows us what we want to see.
More by William Shakespeare
“Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.”
“Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies.”
“It hurts not the tongue to give fair words.”
More on Perception
“Whether you look for the good or look for the bad in a person, you'll find it." A. Lincoln”
“Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.”
“but one loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”
More on Reality
“My own eyes are not enough for me...I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many is not enough...I will see what others have invented. Even the eyes of all humanity are not enough. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee. More gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog.”
“The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.”
“Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I ask to be taken to New York City. Always I return home weary but I have the comforting certainty that mankind is real flesh and I myself am not a dream.”