SIGHT QUOTES
quotations about sight
Where eyes are shut, nothing can be seen.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
letter to Thomas Jefferson Hogg, May 17, 1811
The eyes those silent tongues of Love.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
What people see is a function of what they have been trained or have learned to see in the course of growing up. Perceptual patterns are learned and culturally determined. You see what you want to see, and you don't see what you cannot see because it does not fit with your experiences, your prior learning.
MARIEKE DE MOOIJ
Global Marketing and Advertising: Understanding Cultural Paradoxes
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST
"The Captive", Remembrance of Things Past
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are.
C. S. LEWIS
The Magician's Nephew
And finds with keen, discriminating sight,
Black's not so black--nor white so very white.
GEORGE CANNING
New Morality
Out of sight, out of mind.
JOHN HEYWOOD
Proverbs
Many have sight but few have vision.
NAREN NAGIN
The Enlightened Path: A Biography of Swami Tilak
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
attributed, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotes
We need better sight for better choice.
R. A. FELLER
Poems & Scraps for Healing & Growth
Sight is how one frames perception--it is a window to understanding, to empathy.
JASON PARHAM
"White Supremacy Isn't a Philosophy, It's a Filter", Wired, August 18, 2017
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
Seeing is believing.
JOHN CLARKE
Parœmiologia Anglo-Latina
One has not only an ability to perceive the world but an ability to alter one's perception of it; more simply, one can change things by the manner in which one looks at them.
TOM ROBBINS
Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A Dream Within a Dream
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
What you see is what you get.
FLIP WILSON
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
(Ah! he can see enough, when years are told,
Who backwards looks).
VICTOR HUGO
Eviradnus
Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
SOPHOCLES
Ajax
Most people think of "seeing" and "observing" directly with their senses. But for physicists, these words refer to much more indirect measurements involving a train of theoretical logic by which we can interpret what is "seen."
LISA RANDALL
New York Times, September 18, 2005