Bears Quote by Lucretius

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

— Anonymous

Sometimes we want what we see, but only see what we want.

— Anonymous

We find what we expect to find. We do not see the world as it is but as we are.

— Jo Coudert

We are like people looking for something they have in their hands all the time; we're looking in all directions except at the thing…

— Plato

We usually see only the things we are looking for- so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not.

— Eric Hoffer

Sometimes the things we really want are right in front of us. We just don't see them.

— Wendelin Van Draanen

... even when we find not what we seek, we find something as well worth seeking as what we missed.

— Robert Boyle

We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather…

— Plato

Sometimes we seek that which we are not yet ready to find.

— Libba Bray

Humans are strange things, they see what they have when they've lost what they have; but not while they have it,

— Anonymous

I have always believed that somehow the less we reveal the more the other desires to see.

— Annette Messager

Sometimes we have to lose our way to find out what we really want, for we often ignore our needs until we are lost.

— Anonymous