They don't know how to watch things. They don't know how to see anything but what they expect to see.

The things I haven't seen with my own eyes are for me unknown.

we can’t see what we aren’t looking for, and don’t notice what we don’t notice.

We can see nothing face to face; our utmost seeing is but a fumbling of blind finger-ends in an overcrowded pocket.

Something we cannot see protects us from something we do not understand. The thing we cannot see is culture, in its intrapsychic or internal manifestation. The thing we do not understand is the chaos that gave rise to culture. If the structure of culture is disrupted, unwittingly, chaos returns. We will do anything — anything — to defend ourselves against that return.

Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.

You see, but you do not observe.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

They do not know how to apply names to things.

You cannot see what you don’t look for, and you cannot look for what you don’t believe in.

Minds that have nothing to confer Find little to perceive.

Those who have eyes see little .

In essence, your eyes don't show you what you see they show you what you believe.