Rain comments on Rationality Quotes - September 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Rain 01 September 2009 10:38:08PM *  5 points [-]

We see things as we are, not as they are.

-Leo Rosten

Comment author: gwern 04 September 2009 11:21:30AM 0 points [-]

That may not be the right attribution; I see in Google Books attributions to Immanuel Kant, the Talmud, Adias Ninn, Halsey P. Taylor, and Preston James. I suspect one of the non-Rosten attributions is correct - the earliest Rosten hit from 1978 has the first use of the sentence in quotes.