"Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers."
- George Meredith
"People only see what they are prepared to see."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The lower classes of men though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting the difference between them and a man of learning ..."
- G. C. Lichtenberg
"There's none so blind as those who won't see."
- English proverb
"If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it."
- Neal Stephenson
"...[She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite..."
- Tom Holt