"Pray look better, Sir... those things yonder are no giants, but windmills"

In this quote from Miguel de Cervantes' unique Don Quixote, the character Sancho Panza is attempting to encourage his master, Don Quixote, that the "giants" he is seeing are really simply windmills. Sancho is trying to get Don Quixote to look more carefully and understand that the giants he is seeing are not real. Sancho is trying to safeguard Don Quixote from himself, as Don Quixote is understood for his tendency to see things that are not there. Sancho is trying to get Don Quixote to be more realistic and to see the world as it truly is. This quote is a pointer that sometimes we need to take a step back and look at things more carefully prior to we leap to conclusions. It is also a reminder that we ought to not be so fast to think in things that may not be real.