“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.”
Jean Piaget
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND We are what we are.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become.
PEGGY TONEY HORTON "Since we don't always get we want, the growth is in making what we get, what we want." - Simcha Glu...
SIMCHA GLUCK In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR What we see changes who we are.
JR Wow. It changes what we know.
JUDD CASE It is not what we have that matters; what matters is what we give away with love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA You'll never get anywhere if you go about what-iffing like that.
ROALD DAHL The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A house takes on the character of its inhabitants; a homeowner takes on the characteristics of the h...
CLIFFORD COHEN and take the ironmen in the rear while they are beating off what they think is my main thrust up the...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in Amer...
GEORGE W. BUSH It was like hiking into a Hemingway story; everything was sepia-toned and bristling with subtext.
LESLIE WHAT Chewing tiger nut is good exercise for the mouth, i love its nutty taste
SOTONYE ANGA Some things that goes out of your mouth can wrap itself around your neck and choke you to death in f...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON We can admire what we see, but we can only love what we truly know.
UNKNOWN What we have left behind is beautiful, captivating, and inviting. What lies ahead of us is magnifice...
DEBASISH MRIDHA And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doo...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG What we find changes who we become.
PETER MORVILLE We cannot wish for that we know not.
VOLTAIRE We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.
MARGE PIERCY In life we say what we want to speak, listen to what we want to hear, look at what we want to see, a...
MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN We don't know who we are until we see what we can do.
MARTHA GRIMES I don't think you're heartless, Mitchell. I just think you're different from me. I take certain thin...
NOELLE ADAMS I don't think you're heartless, Mitchell. I just think you're different from me. I take certain thin...
NOELLE ADAMS Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple...
CRAIG GROESCHEL Tell me what you know."
"I'm awake and you're not pancakes.
SEANAN MCGUIRE We see it, we smell and we wanted to know what all this is.
BILL SERCKIE We need to know exactly what we can expect to see from the agency.
MARSHA LOWRY What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc...
CHRISTIAN BOBIN Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.
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RICHARD CARLSON This world was meant to be shared by everyone.
What I want to ask is, "What happened?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set....
JOHN BERGER What we did is we used NASA topography data to map out the landscape, very subtle changes. We starte...
SARAH PARCAK What we beileve is what we see.
SUKANT RATNAKAR The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON Do what you do so well that they will want to see it again and bring their friends.
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GARY F EVANS... In life, it is not a case of what you want but more like what you would like in a case of any decisi...
GARY F EVANS... God has given you what makes you unique
SUNDAY ADELAJA ...I had gone into my wife Akemi over and over and in so many ways that the thought alone made my he...
SISTER SOULJAH That's what hookers get...
...
DEYTH BANGER Your Pursuit Is What You Get
SUNDAY ADELAJA You said that you are ill... but from from what?
DEYTH BANGER What you show is what you represent
SUNDAY ADELAJA You see, the what ifs are as boundless as the stars.
SALLY GARDNER If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA He who knows that he doesn't know, knows what he needs to know.
VIKRANT PARSAI What we don't know can't hurt us.
JOHN SCALZI When we look in the mirror what we see is a version of who we imagine we are. If we imagine we are b...
CHLOE THURLOW You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know...
DOUGLAS ADAMS We know what we know, we will never know what is to be known.
EPHDAN We busted. We all know there's going to be changes ... lots of changes.
SAM ADAMS Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.
RENE MAGRITTE I know what you're doing, though."
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SATHESH KUMAR M The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
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EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We need discernment in what we see and what we hear and what we believe.
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we s...
CHARLES PEGUY We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we ...
CHARLES PEGUY We do see an outpost of some sort. We just don't know what it looks like yet.
SCOTT HOROWITZ None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.
ANNE RICE “None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.”
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DANIE CARO We think we know what history is. We think we know what happened and we don't.
THOMAS CAHILL What we see is mainly what we look for.
UNKNOWN We see not what is, but what we are.
ANAIS NIN We Learn . . .
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of wha...
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SOURCE UNKNOWN Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. We have to allow ourselves to...
DAVID ALMOND Lord we may know what we are, but know not what we may be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We need learn what we need to learn, know what we need to know, and do what we need to do.
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