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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 five elements are energies, not things. In Hinduism, they are known as the five tattvas. Psychic people can see them and their geometric forms. — Stefan Emunds

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

When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing. — Dogen

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

Things are never as good as you think they are or ever as bad as you think they are. — Troy Aikman

How wonderful! How wonderful! All things are perfect, exactly as they are. — Gautama Buddha

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

Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves; and art exclusively with things as they affect the human sense and human soul. — John Ruskin

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

The sage sees things as they are, And takes the middle path, Away from the extremes. — Ali Binazir

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

All things such as grass and trees are soft and supple in life. At their death they are withered and dry. — Laozi

But when one believes in the reality of things, making them visible by artificial means is not quite the same as feeling that they are close at hand. — Marcel Proust

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

Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are. — Vernon Howard

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

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them. — Epictetus

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

Turn away from the things you don't love and don't give them any feeling, because they are fine as they are but they have no place in your life. — Rhonda Byrne

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

The desire to change things must begin with accepting things as they are. — Marty Rubin

If you live a rebellious lifestyle, then you rebel against things because they go against your ideals and the integrity of who you are as a person. — Flea

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

Darwinism's atheism prevents science from knowing why things are as they are. Without God there is no answer to the why for anything. — Dave Hunt

I'm a straight shooter, a New York City girl. I see things as they are and call them as they are. — Elisabeth Rohm

Fine cooking is when the things you have cooked taste as they are — Curnonsky

You will never see things as they are; you will only see things as you are. — Shannon L. Alder

In order to stay happy, You must learn from your wins and fails and accept all things that come your way as they are. — Auliq Ice

As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see. — Sophocles

An innovator sees things not as they are, but as they could be. — Debasish Mridha

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

Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too unlikely, too preposterous. — Walter Abish

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

I am sick of the disparity between things as they are and as they should be. I'm tired.I'm tired of the truth and I'm tired of lying about the truth. — Edward Albee

Samyak buddhi (right intellect) is that which shows things as they are. — Dada Bhagwan

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 things
rather 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

People as such do not exist: they are all 'things conceived — Andrei Bely

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 are no such things as happy endings. Never. They're totally manufactured by fiction writers who choose to end the story on a high point. — Peter David

There is a reason why all things are as they are. — Bram Stoker

Often things are as bad as they seem. — Sheldon B. Kopp

She will want things to stay just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exiting may be just around the corner. — Dodie Smith

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. — Bruce Lee

You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime. — Lisa Kudrow

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

Dear Mildred,' he smiled, 'you are not the kind of person to expect things as your right even though they may be. — Barbara Pym

most people do not see things as they are, they see things as they are! — Richard Rohr

Things are not always as they seem; the first appearance deceives many. — Phaedrus