Theodor W. Adorno Quotes

Failure to recognize the obvious is not a good characteristic of a leader.

I'm not a good observer. I'm not proud of it.

The better you look, the more you see.

It's no good operating on eyes if your eyes are asleep.

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.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

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

We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. What matters is not merely that we see things but how we see them.

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 few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

We should open our eyes, see what's in front of us, and act.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

I'm just someone who observes a lot.

It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.