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Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
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.
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, Sep. 18, 2005
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
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
ROBERTSON DAVIES, quoted in The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotes
Sometimes not seeing things can be a blessing.
AUGUST STRINDBERG, The Dance of Death
None is so blind as he who sees too much.
PHILIP MOELLER, Helena's Husband
Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, preface, Plays Unpleasant
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
He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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
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.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
MARCEL PROUST, "The Captive," Remembrance of Things Past
To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
- All that we see or seem
- Is but a dream within a dream.
EDGAR ALLAN POE, A Dream Within a Dream
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)
It's hubris to think that the way we see things is everything there is.
LISA RANDALL, Discover Magazine, July 2006
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
- Close both eyes
- to see with the other eye.
He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.
HENRY WARD BEECHER, Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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
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
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