SEEING QUOTES

quotations about seeing

Seeing quote

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

GEORGE BERKELEY

Siris

Tags: George Berkeley


Seeing is the ability to see the totality of an event and sense its interconnectedness.

MOSHE KEMPINSKI

"Seeing the voices", Israel National News, February 19, 2017


The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

MARCEL PROUST

"The Captive", Remembrance of Things Past

Tags: Marcel Proust


I'm looking through you, where did you go?
I thought I knew you, what did I know?
You don't look different, but you have changed
I'm looking through you, you're not the same

THE BEATLES

"I'm Looking Through You"

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The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind couldn't detect.

MARK TWAIN

Joan of Arc

Tags: Mark Twain


It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.

LISA RANDALL

Discover Magazine, July 2006


Things are not always what they are seen to be; the first appearance, glance, view, deceives or imposes on many.

PHAEDRUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

preface, Plays Unpleasant

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The man who perceives life only with his eye, his ear, his hand, and his tongue, is but little higher than the ox or an intelligent dog; but he who has imagination sees things around and above him, as the angels see them.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

ROBERTSON DAVIES

attributed, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotes

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You should show some respect for what other people see and feel, even though it be the exact opposite of what you see and feel.

LUIGI PIRANDELLO

It Is So! (If You Think So)

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The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe that he has it.

WILL ROGERS

The Autobiography of Will Rogers

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He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


Close both eyes
to see with the other eye.

RUMI

Essential Rumi

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What can saying make those believe whom seeing cannot persuade.

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

attributed, Day's Collacon

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Two men look out through the same bars:
One sees the mud, and one the stars.

FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE

In A Cluster of Quiet Thoughts


There's nothing you can know that isn't known
Nothing you can see that isn't shown

THE BEATLES

"All You Need Is Love", Magical Mystery Tour

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All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

EDGAR ALLAN POE

A Dream Within a Dream

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What we do see depends mainly on what we look for.... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportsmen the cover for the game. Though we may all look at the same things, it does not all follow that we should see them.

JOHN LUBBOCK

The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In

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Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.

AUGUST STRINDBERG

The Dance of Death

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