quotations about sight
To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.
HENRY FORD
Theosophist Magazine, February 1930
No matter how intelligent a man is, he can't see what he doesn't know how to see.
URSULA K. LE GUIN
The Dispossessed
At the moment of vision, the eyes see nothing.
WILLIAM GOLDING
The Spire
Sight is much the noblest of the senses; we receive our notices from the other four through the organs of sensation only; we hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch; but sight rises infinitely higher; it is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.
LAURENCE STERNE
attributed, Day's Collacon
When you focus all your attention on what is seen, your eyes will be blinded to what is real.... You must see the invisible, dream the impossible, and believe the unfathomable.
HERITAGE JAMES
Problems Are Friends Not Enemies. Rediscovering the Hidden Advantages of Adversities
Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
The Dance of Death
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
THEODOR W. ADORNO
Minima Moralia
The experienced physician, mechanic, or physiologist looking at a wound, an engine, a microscopic preparation, "sees" things the novice does not see. If both, experts and laymen, were asked to make exact copies of what they see, their drawings would be quite different.
RUDOLF ARNHEIM
Visual Thinking
A problem out of sight is a problem out of mind, but it's still a problem.
KIRSTY MAJOR
The Independent, April 5, 2017
The importance of sight is so great that all the superior and most of the inferior animals have been provided with it. A large proportion of our ideas owe their origin to this sense. Works of genius and the records of knowledge are addressed to it, and without it could neither have existence nor utility.
HENRY MCCORMAC
The Philosophy of Human Nature, in Its Physical, Intellectual, and Moral Relations
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
preface, Plays Unpleasant
None is so blind as he who sees too much.
PHILIP MOELLER
Helena's Husband
What people see is determined by where they sit. They naturally see things from their own perspective, not from anyone else's, including yours.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs
What people see is influenced by who they are. People in the same room will look at the same things and see everything totally differently.... Each of us has his or her own bent, and that colors our view of everything. What is around us doesn't determine what we see. What is within us does.
JOHN C. MAXWELL
Winning with People: Discover the People Principles that Work for You Every Time
What people see is never the end of what should be seen.
HERITAGE JAMES
Problems Are Friends Not Enemies. Rediscovering the Hidden Advantages of Adversities
Would you rather have sight, or insight? I'd rather have a double cheeseburger.
JAROD KINTZ
A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom
True-sight is an individuated awareness. It comes from a living relationship with the here and now and the Otherworld, the mythic and the historic, the conscious and the unconscious. Thus, the first step toward true- sight is education.
ARTHUR ROWAN
The Lore of the Bard: A Guide to the Celtic & Druid Mysteries
It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.
LISA RANDALL
Discover Magazine, LISA RANDALL, Discover Magazine,
Still, the one who best understands the significance of light is not the electrician, not the painter, not the photographer, but the man who lost his sight in adulthood. There must be the wisdom of deficiency in deficiency, just as there is the wisdom of plenty in plenty.
KOBO ABE
The Face of Another
Thus, we realize that true sight is beyond the sense consciousness. Now that we know that true sight is not in the senses, we can become dead or blind to the senses, thereby resurrecting ourselves out of the realm of the senses into the realm of sight.
GLEN C. CUTLIP
The Transonic Consciousness