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We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon. - Konrad Adenauer Make a point never go clear, it is great odds that a man whose habits and the bent of whose mind lie a contrary way, shall be unable to comprehend it. So weak a thing is reason in competition with inclination. - Bishop George Berkeley If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. - William Blake As men of inward light are wont To turn their optics in upon't. - Samuel Butler (1), Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 481) People don't use their eyes. They never see a bird, they see a sparrow. They never see a tree, they see a birch. They see concepts. - Joyce Cary People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else. - Euripides To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are. - Eric Hoffer Whenever two people meet there are really six present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person sees him, and each man as he really is. - William James He gives us the very quintessence of perception. - James Russell Lowell, My Study Windows--Coleridge I see a green tree. And to me it is green. And you would call the tree green also. And we would agree on this. But is the colour you see as green the same colour I see as green? - Carson McCullers We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin Symmetry is what we see at a glance. - Blaise Pascal The clearsighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it. - Agnes Repplier The more sand has escaped from the hour-glass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses. - Giovanni Ruffini
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