Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.
Denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
The miller believes that all the wheat grows so that his mill keeps running.
Woe be to him that reads but one book.
The sky is no bigger than the mouth of the well.
The more opinions you have, the less you see.
The frog does not drink in the pond in which he lives.
Remember that my view, the only true view I can see with, is through the black eyes that I have.
A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.
He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans.
It is important that when pursing our own self-interest we should be 'wise selfish' and not 'foolish selfish'. Being foolish selfish means pursuing our own interests in a narrow, shortsighted way. Being wise selfish means taking a broader view and recognizing that our own long-term individual interest lies in the welfare of everyone. Being wise selfish means being compassionate.
Experience cannot possibly have decided between two courses, so long as there has only been experience of one.
A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing.
There is absolutely nothing you can learn out of one bllodeshot eye.
He who sees only what is before his eyes sees the worst part of every view.
The problem is I don't know anything or anyone. I am so focused on the immediate picture in front of me.
We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want between selected lines.
Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.
If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thru chinks of his cavern.
We know so little. Our judgment is so limited. We judge the Lord's ways from our own narrow view.
When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
