quotations about sight
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
Thus, we realize that true sight is beyond the sense consciousness. Now that we know that true sight is not in the senses, we can become dead or blind to the senses, thereby resurrecting ourselves out of the realm of the senses into the realm of sight.
GLEN C. CUTLIP
The Transonic Consciousness
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
What, my boy, you are not weeping? You should save your eyes for sight.
SARAH WILLIAMS
Twilight Hours: A Legacy of Verse
I've got hungry eyes
One look at you and I can't disguise
I've got hungry eyes
ERIC CARMEN
"Hungry Eyes"
We walk by faith and not by sight.
BIBLE
2 Corinthians 5:7
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
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
How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
The Sun Watches the Sun
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)
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
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
Popol Vuh
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
Perception is strong and sight weak.
MIYAMOTO MUSASHI
The Book of Five Rings
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 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
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
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
She has the Sight. She can see what others do not. In her old life she often wondered if she was mad. Now she knows that she is not mad but special.
CASSANDRA CLARE
Clockwork Angel
Blindness itself commends the excellence of sight.
ST. AUGUSTINE
attributed, Day's Collacon