To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

It's not enough that you believe what you see. You must also understand what you see.

To learn to love, one must first learn to see.

If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it.

But you must have knowledge and know-how to interpret the meaning of what you observe

What you aim at determines what you see.

People — adults as well as children — so often just don’t realize what they’re looking at. There’s no thought behind it. They’ll say to themselves, ‘Well, that’s a bookshelf’ or ‘That’s an elephant,’ and see nothing other than just the fact. There’s no sense of relationship — or the relationship of a house to its environment, a man to his environment, of the scale of things. … Seeing is really a decision-making process, a matter of evaluating what is around you

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

You must understand that seeing is believing, but also know that believing is seeing.

Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?

There is only one way to see things,
until someone shows us how to look at them
with different eyes