Adults Quote by Chris Ware

Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander…

— Dara Horn

When we are children, people show us so many things that we lose the profound sense of seeing... And just how could adults show…

— Gaston Bachelard

We're learning things every decade we grow through, and ultimately, you do end up with a different way of looking at things.

— Florence Pugh

What you see is not what we see. What you see is distracted by memory, by being who you are, all this time, for…

— Don DeLillo

We look at the world once, in childhood. The rest is memory.

— Louise Glück

A child sees everything, looks straight at it, examines it, without any preconceived idea; most people, after they are about eleven or twelve, quite…

— Olive Schreiner

Seeing is an essential pillar of learning. And yet most of us for instance never actually look up at the sky and wonder what…

— Robin Abdullah Chowdhury

The more you see, especially being young, the more you see the past, the more you can draw upon that and the more you…

— Martin Scorsese

“Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically…

— Aldous Huxley

So often we are too lazy or too distracted to see with care. Images come into our retinas, and our minds have already interpreted…

— Gunilla Brodde Norris

“Let us call this quality the Original Mind. This mind looked at the world more directly—not through words and received ideas. It was flexible…

— Robert Greene

I feel that one of the most important lessons that can be learned is that what we "see" may be different than what is…

— Anonymous