Sight Quotes - Page 2

• In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

  Mao Zedong

  Hard Work, Adversity, Achievement

  Zedong Mao (1967). “The Thoughts of Chairman Mao Tsê-tung”

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• In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Wisdom, Kings, Men

  Desiderius Erasmus, William Watson Barker (2001). “The Adages of Erasmus”, p.276, University of Toronto Press

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• It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth. It is my ears which hear, and the hearing of my ears gives its song to the world. It is my mind which thinks, and the judgement of my mind is the only searchlight that can find the truth. It is my will which chooses, and the choice of my will is the only edict I must respect.

  Ayn Rand

  Song, Eye, Thinking

  Ayn Rand (2012). “Study Guide: Anthem (Study Gudie and Book)”, p.101, BookCaps Study Guides

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• One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.353, Vintage

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• My goal in life is to unite my avocation with my vocation, As my two eyes make one in sight.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Eye, Two

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• It is better to have no sight than it is to have no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Vision

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• Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

  Herman Melville

  Love, Friendship, Firsts

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• It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Change, Wisdom

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.181, Simon and Schuster

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  All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.

  Marie Curie

  Life, Nature, Children

  Marie Curie (2013). “Pierre Curie: With Autobiographical Notes by Marie Curie”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• That is the road we all have to take - over the Bridge of Sight into eternity.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Journey, Bridges, Eternity

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• The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning.

  Stendhal

  Beautiful, Art, Memories

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• Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Eye, Animal

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• We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Book, People, Perfect

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “Crime and Punishment”, p.11, Vintage

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• The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.

  Franklin Knight Lane

  Fighting, Men, Odds

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• If I ever see more clearly at one time than at another, the medium through which I see is clearer.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Knowledge, Mediums, One Time

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.290, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

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• Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange to many that the hand unaided by sight can feel action, sentiment, beauty in the cold marble; and yet it is true that I derive genuine pleasure from touching great works of art. As my finger tips trace line and curve, they discover the thought and emotion which the artist has portrayed.

  Helen Keller

  Beauty, Art, Inspiration

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• I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

  Walt Disney

  Life, Determination, Imagination

  "What Is Disneyland?" (television program), 27 Oct. 1954

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• The pressure of survival in the big city will make you lose sight of your dream … Hang in there.

  James de la Vega

  Dream, Cities, Survival

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• Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.

  William Rainey Harper

  Years, Vision, Looks

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• All you have to do is wait,” I explained. “Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by force, just watch the drift of things. Make an effort to cast a fair eye on everything. If you do that, you just naturally know what to do. But everyone’s always too busy. They’re too talented, their schedules are too full. They’re too interested in themselves to think about what’s fair.

  Haruki Murakami

  Change, Patience, Eye

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• Do you know I don't know how one can walk by a tree and not be happy at the sight of it? How can one talk to a man and not be happy in loving him! Oh, it's only that I'm not able to express it...And what beautiful things there are at every step, that even the most hopeless man must feel to be beautiful! Look at a child! Look at God's sunrise! Look at the grass, how it grows! Look at the eyes that gaze at you and love you!

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Beautiful, Children, Love You

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• There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

  Larry Dossey

  Ordinary, Treasure, Want

  Larry Dossey (2007). “The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness”, p.1, Harmony

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• There is no more beautiful sight in all this world than to see a family praying together. There is real meaning behind the oft-quoted ‘The family that prays together stays together.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Beautiful, Real, Together

  Thomas S. Monson (1988). “Live the Good Life”, Shadow Mountain

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• Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

  Laurence Sterne

  Smell, Four, Matter

  Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.356

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• In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Men, Land, Civilization

  Joan D. Vinge (2002). “Catspaw”, p.82, Macmillan

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