Some Quotes on Sight

The soul never thinks without a mental picture.
Aristotle

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar Wilde

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.
Jonathan Swift

What has happened makes the world. Live on the edge, looking.
Robert Creeley

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
John Lubbock

You can observe a lot by just watching.
Yogi Berra

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
Carl Jung

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Don't think of words when you stop but to see the picture better.
Jack Kerouac

Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

I am a part of all that I have seen.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.
Betty Smith

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.
Samuel T. Coleridge

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.
Oscar Wilde

Seeing within changes one's outer vision.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
Thomas Carlyle

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
Publilius Syrus

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
Ayn Rand

The heart has eyes which the brain knows nothing of.
Charles H. Perkhurst

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Edward R. Murrow

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust

One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
G.K. Chesterton

People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.
Nachman of Bratslav

What is art but a way of seeing?
Saul Bellow

Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Blaise Pascal

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
Annie Dillard

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.
C.S. Lewis