SEEING QUOTES
quotations about seeing
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
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST
"The Captive", Remembrance of Things Past
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
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"
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
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
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
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
ROBERTSON DAVIES
attributed, The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotes
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
preface, Plays Unpleasant
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)
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
Close both eyes
to see with the other eye.
RUMI
Essential Rumi
He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
What can saying make those believe whom seeing cannot persuade.
SIR PHILIP SIDNEY
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE
A Dream Within a Dream
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
Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.
AUGUST STRINDBERG
The Dance of Death