Awe Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I do not understand; I pause; I examine.

— Michel de Montaigne

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

— Charles Babbage

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness

— Anonymous

You don't see something until you have the right metaphor to perceive it.

— Robert Shaw

Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

A perception, sudden as blinking, that subject and object are one, will lead to a deeply mysterious understanding; and by this understanding you will…

— Huangbo Xiyun

“Perception begins with what is experienced, rather than beginning with what is expected; the model is to "see and understand" rather than "understand and…

— Paul Dourish

When I look at something, it is certain that for an instant I am one with what I see.

— Ella Maillart

When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

You don't see what you're seeing until you see it but when you do see it, it lets you see many other things.

— William Thurston

If one looks at a thing with the intention of trying to discover what it means, one ends up no longer seeing the thing…

— Rene Magritte

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

— Noomi Rapace