Metaphor Quote by Robert Shaw

“you don't see something until you have the right metaphor to let you perceive it”

— Robert Stetson Shaw

A visual sense is something you either have or you don't.

— Elliott Erwitt

Sometimes we don't see certain things until we're ready to see them in a certain way.

— Edward Norton

How you see things is how they appear. Think different and you'll see them differently.

— Anonymous

Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.

— Fernando Sabino

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

— Agatha Christie

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

We see things but we don't see them, like things that slid through the mind, one flowing into another.

— Marcel Proust

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything…

— Henry David Thoreau

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

— John Constable

Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

— William P. Young

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

— Oscar Wilde