quotations about sight
Of more validity is the sight of one eye than the attention of ten ears; for in that a man seeth is an assurance, and that he heareth may be an error.
GEORGE TURBERVILLE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.
MEGAN CHANCE
The Spiritualist
I've got hungry eyes
One look at you and I can't disguise
I've got hungry eyes
ERIC CARMEN
"Hungry Eyes"
We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
CHARLES DE LINT
Tapping the Dream Tree
We walk by faith and not by sight.
BIBLE
2 Corinthians 5:7
What, my boy, you are not weeping? You should save your eyes for sight.
SARAH WILLIAMS
Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
The sight is the chiefest sense, and the first mistress that provokes men forward to the study and searching of knowledge and wisdom.
THOMAS WARD
attributed, Day's Collacon
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)
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", STL Jewish Light, August 17, 2017
How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
The Sun Watches the Sun
Sight is the most spiritual of the senses. Through Sight the structure of the world is revealed. Through it the perception of identity, growths, processes, vistas. Hence the breadth of the significance of this sense in the nomenclature of Science.
WILLIAM SWINTON
Rambles Among Words: Their Poetry, History and Wisdom
O Sight! to man, the vivifying lamp,
That, darting through the intellectual maze,
Giv'st to each rising thought the living ray!
MARY ROBINSON
"Sight", Sight, the Cavern of Woe, and Solitude: Poems
What people "see" is highly dependent on their interests, biases, and backgrounds. Our culture shapes what we see, our early childhood socialization forms how we look at the world, and our value systems tell us how to interpret what passes before our eyes.
MICHAEL QUINN PATTON
Qualitative Research & Evaluation Methods
Perception is strong and sight weak.
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI
The Book of Five Rings
He that cannot contract the sight of his mind, as well as disperse and dilate it, wanteth a great faculty.
FRANCIS BACON
"Advancement of Learning", The Essays of Lord Bacon
Let an understanding man imagine human nature originally produced without the sense of sight, and consider what ignorance and trouble such a defect would bring upon him, what a darkness and blindness in the soul; he will then see by that of how great importance to the knowledge of truth would be the privation of such another sense, or of two or three, should we be so deprived.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
attributed, Day's Collacon
What people see is an indication of what they care about and can care about. It is an indication of the depth and breadth of their compassion, the scope and quality of their loves and desires, and the intensity with which they feel.
CRAIG DYKSTRA
Vision and Character
Blindness itself commends the excellence of sight.
ST. AUGUSTINE
attributed, Day's Collacon
They know all ... what shall we do with them now? Let their sight reach only to that which is near; let them see only a little of the face of the earth!... Are they not by nature simple creatures of our making? Must they also be gods?
ANONYMOUS
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