Welcome to my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote. See today's daily inspirational quotes below.
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself. - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Friday, December 6, 2019
Look a Little Deeper
Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.
- Alan Watts
Trust not too much to appearances.
- Virgil
The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances,
and demonstrations for impressions.
- John Ruskin
Men in general judge more from
appearances than from reality.
All men have eyes, but few have
the gift of penetration.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
- John Heywood (also attributed to the later Matthew Henry, and others)
(based on Jeremiah 5:21)
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Hope and Fear Cloud Our Vision.
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or what we fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Further reading: Art of Seeing
Labels:
Alan Watts,
appearance,
Bible,
Henry David Thoreau,
John Ruskin,
Niccolo Machiavelli,
overlook,
see,
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Virgil
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