quotations about seeing
Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?
SOPHOCLES
Ajax
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
Seeing is believing.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Present seeing is reality at any given moment. Present faith is reality at any given moment. But one is not to be assumed to be the other for oddly both realms, in fact, see. Sight sees. Faith, however, sees during the very same situation; but with an opposing perspective. This surely keeps us on our toes as at the reading of this we are likely saying, Huh? This may verify the challenge of which I speak.
TERRY RUSH
"Two Opposing, Yet Simultaneous, Realms Of Reality", Memphis Democrat, September 14, 2017
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
Impression is, after all, largely an illusion. What is real lies in our minds and in our hearts. And this reality we can make beautiful or ugly according to the attitude we take toward the rest of the world. Haven't you ever noticed how some things seen at a certain angle seem hideous, and how the same things seen at another angle seem beautiful?
JOHN DANIEL BARRY
"Seeing", Intimations
We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
CHARLES PEGUY
attributed, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists
Open to everything happy and sad
Seeing the good when it's all going bad
Seeing the sun when I can't really see
Hoping the sun will at least look at me
MOBY
"Slipping Away"
Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.
TARJEI VESAAS
The Boat in the Evening
I like the idea that seeing is bigger than vision, and that if you are attentive, information can be absorbed through your fingertips and toes.
WENDY JACOB
"Radcliffe exhibit turns touch into sight", Harvard Gazette, November 22, 2016
Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer, and clearer still. The image is passing through you in a physiological way, into your brain, into your memory -- where it stays -- it's transmitted by your hands.
MARTIN GAYFORD
A Bigger Message: Conversations with David Hockney
What one sees, another may not see; but the one who sees not, never should control the one who sees; he never can control the fact seen, and it is not wisdom to allow him.
CHARLES HAMMOND
Light from the Spirit World
To see a thing clearly in the mind makes it begin to take form.
HENRY FORD
Theosophist Magazine, February 1930
Anything is easy to the man who sees.... The open eye of the open mind--that has more to do with real detective work than all the deduction and induction and analysis ever devised.
SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
Average Jones
Trying hard to understand
But really not you're seeing me
There's a meaning there
But the meaning there doesn't really mean a thing
KYLIE MINOGUE
"The Real Thing"
For any man with half an eye,
What stands before him may espy;
But optics sharp it needs I ween,
To see what is not to be seen.
JOHN TRUMBULL
McFingal
See, grasp it in its intuitive momentariness. See it, and see it all, or as much as is known to you through this kind of understanding. This is the intuition, the momentary apprehension of a truth, sometimes before there may be words attached to it.
JAMES STONE GOODMAN
"What's the blessing, what's the curse", St. Louis Jewish Light, August 17, 2017
Well hearing's deceiving
And seeing's believing
Make me know it do
Come on now, make me know it
Well go ahead and show it
ELVIS PRESLEY
"Stuck On You"
Your biggest fear will be the rescue of you
Strange how it turns out that way, yeah
Could you show me dear?
Something I'm not seeing
Something infinitely interesting
INCUBUS
"Echo"
I think it's easier to see when you're a kid. We're not in a hurry to get anywhere and we don't have those long to-do lists you guys have.
JIM LYNCH
The Highest Tide