“All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable, which makes you see something you weren't noticing, which makes you see something that isn't even visible.”

—  Leo Strauss

Attributed to Strauss at many sites on the internet, this is actually Norman Maclean, in A River Runs Through It (1976)
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