Charles Babbage Quotes

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

It might be good to open our eyes and see.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

It is high time that we realized that it is pointless to praise the light and preach it if nobody can see it. It is much more needful to preach the art of seeing.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

A phenomenon must be to some extent comprehensible to be perceived at all.

Subject is known by what she sees.

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.

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

Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.