Sight Quotes

• Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

  Joseph Addison

  Science, Perfect, Delightful

  The Spectator Vol. V No. 411 (1712)

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• Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

  George Perkins Marsh

  Art, Faculty, Seeing

  George Perkins Marsh (1864). “Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action”, p.10, New York : C. Scribner

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  The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Women, Being Sad

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• What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

  John Lubbock

  Inspirational, Being Happy, Attitude

  Sir John Lubbock (1897). “The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live In”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Death Of A Loved One

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.

  Yanni

  Matter, Happens, Loses

  Yanni (2003). “Yanni in Words”

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• Never be so focused on what you're looking for that you overlook the thing you actually find.

  Ann Patchett

  Goal, Focus, Advice

  Ann Patchett (2011). “State of Wonder”, p.246, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with its objects at the greatest distance, and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated with its proper enjoyments.

  Joseph Addison

  Distance, Tired, Ideas

  Joseph Addison (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)”, p.4174, Delphi Classics

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• Sight is about what lies right in front of us. Vision is what lies ahead.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Dream, Lying, Vision

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• I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

  Mary Oliver

  Depth, Asks, Seeing

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• Sight is where the eye hits.

  Louis Zukofsky

  Eye, Vision, Seeing

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• Sight is the noblest sense of man.

  Albrecht Durer

  Men, Vision

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• Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight.

  Laozi

  Light, Meditation, Use

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• Sight is something you take for granted until you think you might lose it.

  Paul Coffey

  Thinking, Might, Granted

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• For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Inspirational, Dream, Stars

  Vincent van Gogh, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Van Gogh by Vincent”

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• I awaken today, appreciating everything in sight, and I give thanks.

  Louise Hay

  Appreciate, Giving, Today

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Jul 07, 2010

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• 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

  Clever, Eye, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.69

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• out of sight,out of mind

  Homer

  Mind, Of Sight Out Of Mind

  Homer (2005). “The Odyssey”, p.156, Macmillan

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• My sight
  My heart
  My Life
  All three words I have woven into one ... Love.

  Rumi

  Heart, Woven, Three

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• Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to note the attitude of workers towards their boss, and equally interesting to note the attitude towards the workers. It is tragic to notice how many chief executives of large concerns are absolutely unknown, even by sight, to the rank and file of their workers.

  B. C. Forbes

  Attitude, Interesting, Boss

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• Believe in love at first sight.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Life Lesson, Believe, Firsts

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2012). “Life's Little Instruction Book: Simple Wisdom and a Little Humor for Living a Happy and Rewarding Life”, p.498, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Thinking is a sacred disease and sight is deceptive.

  Heraclitus

  Thinking, Disease, Sacred

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• Virtually nothing on earth can stop a person with a positive attitude who has his goals clearly in sight.

  Denis Waitley

  Attitude, Goal, Earth

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• Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.

  Mario Andretti

  Motivational, Goal, Delay

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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