Jonathan Maberry Quotes

Seeing is not believing - it is only seeing.

People think that they see, but they don't.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is actually in front of us.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Seeing reality for what it is is what we call discernment. The work of discernment is very hard.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than you would have imagined.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers

Belief and seeing: They are both often wrong.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

It takes enormous effort to avoid all theories and just see.

Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task.

The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magics, it's the hardest thing to do.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.

La ve rite , comme la lumie' re, aveugle. Le mensonge, au contraire, est un beau cre puscule qui met chaque objet en valeur. Truth, like light, blinds. A lie, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight which shows the value of each object.

What, concretely, is Enlightenment ?" "Seeing Reality as it is," said the Master. "Doesn't everyone see Reality as it is?" "Oh, no! Most people see it as they think it is." "What's the difference?" "The difference between thinking you are drowning in a stormy sea and knowing you cannot drown because there isn't any water in sight for miles around.

If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.

You must look at facts, because they look at you.

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear