SEEING QUOTES III

quotations about seeing

He who sees with the eye believes with the heart.

LODOVICO ARIOSTO

attributed, Day's Collacon


Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom, and behold it (as it were) for the first time; in its right, authentic colors; without making comparisons.

ARNOLD BENNETT

The Journal of Arnold Bennett

Tags: Arnold Bennett


After all, the true seeing is within.

GEORGE ELIOT

Middlemarch

Tags: George Eliot


Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

Tags: Charles Caleb Colton


The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.

JOHN BERGER

Ways of Seeing


The age, wherein he lived was dark; but he
Could not want sight, who taught the world to see.

JOHN DENHAM

Todd's Johnson


To learn to see -- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Twilight of the Idols

Tags: Friedrich Nietzsche


Being is seeing in the human dimension.

STEPHEN R. COVEY

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People


Do not look too far for you will see nothing.

DEJAN STOJANOVIC

The Sun Watches the Sun


People are forever watching things. They should be seeing. I see the things I look at. I am a see-er.

PATRICK ROTHFUSS

The Wise Man's Fear


Modern life's technology, of course, jams a lot of bright lights into eyeballs that are staring at electronic screens. The technique of averted vision isn't something that comes naturally in these settings. The notion that seeing is a skill seems pretty weird but it is, indeed, very much a skill.

ED STEPHENS JR.

"The third galaxy", Saipan Tribune, August 25, 2017


Seeing is an integrating activity. What you see is fixed in a moment; sight is a perception of depth and relationship, but not one of time and articulation.

JAMES STONE GOODMAN

"What's the blessing, what's the curse", St. Louis Jewish Light, August 17, 2017


See and to be seen.

BEN JONSON

Epithalamion

Tags: Ben Jonson


Eyes sense what mind sees.

TOBA BETA

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut


People intuitively believe that seeing is a matter only of opening one's eyes. Frequently, people fail to perceive very major things happening right in front of our eyes, a phenomenon known "perceptual blindness".

KADE HAWKINS

Breaking Israel News, May 16, 2017


Many people have never learned to see the beauty of flowers, especially those that grow unnoticed. For instance, when you walk outside and look down at your feet, you may see tiny flowers nestled in the moss and clover hiding under a curled fern. Most people just step on them. I paint them.

ERIKA JUST

Flowers

Tags: Erika Just


None is so blind as he who sees too much.

PHILIP MOELLER

Helena's Husband

Tags: Philip Moeller


And if thou sayest that sight impedes the security and subtlety of mental meditation, by reason of which we penetrate into divine knowledge, and that this impediment drove a philosopher to deprive himself of his sight, I answer that the eye, as lord of the senses, performs its duty in being an impediment to the confusion and lies of that which is not science but discourse, by which with much noise and gesticulation argument is constantly conducted; and hearing should do the same, feeling, as it does, the offense more keenly, because it seeks after harmony which devolves on all the senses. And if this philosopher deprived himself of his sight to get rid of the obstacle to his discourses, consider that his discourse and his brain were a party to the act, because the whole was madness. Now could he not have closed his eyes when this frenzy came upon him, and have kept them closed until the frenzy consumed itself? But the man was mad, the discourse insane, and egregious the folly of destroying his eyesight.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Thoughts on Art and Life

Tags: Leonardo da Vinci


We look, look, look perpetually while awake, yet few see half they look at.... How many of us have passed along a street or been anywhere ninety-nine times without seeing something always there, which we saw the hundredth time. Our eyes, too, have rested on it, yet we have not noticed it. Or even if we have, we barely observed its existence, whereas many curious things about it escaped cognizance.

ORSON SQUIRE FOWLER

Memory and Intellectual Improvement Applied to Self-Education and Juvenile Instruction


Seeing in your eyes
Words can never say the way
Told me in your eyes
Final in a fade
Never no more hope away
Final in a fade
Seeing in your eyes

PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.

"Swan Lake"