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A liberal conservative is a man who thinks things ought to progress but would rather they remained as they are.
— James Fitzjames Stephen
The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.
— Shunryu Suzuki
We see things as we are, not as they are...
— Anais Nin
Stoicism and silence does not serve us nor our communities, only the forces of things as they are.
— Audre Lorde
Dreams are matters of the heart, things that pull you along as if they have hooked you someplace deep inside.
— Jeanne Marie Laskas
Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.
— Jack Provonsha
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
— George Bernard Shaw
Some things are better 'left' as they are...unresolved but evolving...
— Abha Maryada Banerjee
Everything could always be worse,' she would say, 'and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.' She
— Alexander McCall Smith
Most things are not as risky as they seem.
— Sam Altman
Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.
— Katherine Arden
Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and then looking ahead, not behind.
— Rafael Nadal
The only business of the historian is to relate things exactly as they are: this he can never do as long as he is afraid
— Lucian Of Samosata
You need to see things as they are, not worse than they are, than see them better than they are, and make them that way.
— Jordan Belfort
If you receive things just as an echo of yourself, you do not really see them, you do not fully accept them as they are.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Human beings are strange creatures. As people come across one another they produce various outcomes. Good things, sometimes. And other times, bad.
— Natsuki Takaya
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
— Emile M. Cioran
You see persons and things not as they are but as you are.
— Anthony De Mello
A mind full of preconceived ideas, subjective intentions, or habits it not open to things as they are.
— Shunryu Suzuki
Our work is to present things that are as they are.
— Frederick The Great
In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.
— John Lubbock
I wish to reproduce things as they are or as they would be even if I myself did not exist.
— Hippolyte Taine
Some men see things as they are, and say, why; I dream things as they never were, and say, why not.
— George Bernard Shaw
True knowledge is knowledge of why things are as they are, and not merely what they are.
— Isaiah Berlin
Oh, Anne, things are so mixed-up in real life. They aren't clear-cut and trimmed off, as they are in novels.
— L.M. Montgomery
For my teachers, unfortunately, certain things were, as they are for you, only tales of power
— Carlos Castaneda
Just as stinginess is blameworthy so is the fault of facility in paying more for things than they are worth ...
— Vincent De Paul
Envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are.
— Margaret Of Valois
There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.
— Andrew Tobias
My experience is that many things are not as bad as I thought they would be.
— Mary Doria Russell
Things are not as they appear.
— Lawrence Earle Johnson
We see things not as they are, we see them as WE are.
— Morrie Camhi
A conscience free from guilt leads to tranquility of the mind, and only a tranquil mind can see things as they truly are.
— Bohdi Sanders
I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are.
— Elisabeth Rohm
You will never see things as they are; you will only see things as you are.
— Shannon L. Alder
An innovator sees things not as they are, but as they could be.
— Debasish Mridha
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People [are] as much a source of entertainment as they [are] a source of irritation. it keep[s] things balanced.
— Nora Roberts
I am not an economist, but things are not as bad as they seem. I have a great deal of confidence in our future.
— Walt Disney Company
I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.
— Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate an intellectual habit of subordinating one's opinions and wishes to objective evidence and a reverence for things as they really are.
— William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.
— Paulo Coelho
We see things not as they are, but as we are ourselves.
— H.M. Tomlinson
Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is. I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.
— A.B. Shepherd
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
— Vera Brittain
If we look at things as they are instead of giving them our own shape and colour, life will be less complicated
— Santosh Joshi
Things are not as they should be. Because He's not finished yet. They will be. Rest assured.
— R.C. Sproul Jr.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
— Oscar Wilde
Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man.
— Richard Brookhiser
When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.
— William Blake
Understanding the true nature of things, or seeing things as they really are, is the ground of wisdom.
— Allan Lokos
We see things by the way we can see, that is, confusingly, and so we almost always see them as they are not.
— Mathias Aires
Some things are as they are regardless of what they were.
— John D. Barrow
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
— Samuel Johnson
The philosophers write about things as they are and as they appear to be, but as an artist I find that appearance is everything.
— Gary Inbinder
Women with minds scare some men. We make them wonder if they're as on top of things as they think they are.
— Lorna Landvik
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of thingsrather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn
Joy is being willing for things to be as they are.
— Charlotte Joko Beck
Things are rarely as random as they appear
— Maya Banks
In order for things to change, you have to see them as you want them to be rather than continuing to observe them as they are.
— Esther Hicks
If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.
— Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
Why are things as they are and not otherwise?
— Johannes Kepler
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
— George Santayana
enter the world of things as they are
— Neil Gaiman
To be a writer you need to see things as they are, and to see things as they are you need a certain basic innocence.
— Tobias Wolff
All of the world's religions have important things to teach us, and they are not as different from each other as some would have you believe.
— Kent Allan Rees
Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result.
— Elspeth Huxley
As I have discovered again and again, things are never as bad (or as good) as they seem at the time.
— Chris Hadfield
There is a reason why all things are as they are.
— Bram Stoker
Often things are as bad as they seem.
— Sheldon B. Kopp
An artist sees things not as they are, but as he is.
— Robert Beverly Hale
To be a priest,' writes Barbara Brown Taylor, 'is to know that things are not as they should be and yet to care for them the way they are.
— Rachel Held Evans
