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Quotes About Sight

You have eyes, yet cannot see without light.
~ Frank Herbert
I have another kind of sight. I see another kind of terrain: the available paths. The
~ Frank Herbert
There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness, Paul thought.
~ Frank Herbert
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~ Frank Herbert
Du kannst jemanden, der die Augen verbunden hat, noch so sehr aufmuntern, durch das Tuch zu starren, er wird doch niemals etwas sehen; erst wenn man ihm das Tuch abnimmt, kann er sehen.
~ Franz Kafka
they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight of any thought for the future.
~ Franz Kafka
Enlightenment comes to even the dimmest. It begins around the eyes, and it spreads outward from there- a sight that might tempt one to lie down under the harrow oneself.
~ Franz Kafka
In no case was there anything to show that he was afflicted with blindness and this in spite of the fact that he exercised undue economy in the spacing of lines.
~ Franz Kafka
Sight does not master the pictures, it is the pictures which master one's sight. They flood one's consciousness. The cinema involves putting the eye into uniform, where before it was naked.
~ Franz Kafka
Por más que animes tanto como quieras, a alguien que tiene los ojos vendados, a mirar a través de su venda, no verá jamás. No empezará a ver más hasta que se quite la venda. Es ayuda lo que Barnabás necesita, no ánimos.
~ Franz Kafka
One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
~ Paul Begala
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone.
~ Rod Serling
Between them they estimated a fleet of something between 12 and 18 full war galleys composed of a mixture of triremes and biremes, then 70 to 80 smaller fustae, about 25 parandaria – heavy transport barges – and a number of light brigantines and other small message boats, a force of about 140 boats in all. It was an awesome sight to glimpse over the curve of the western horizon.
~ Roger Crowley
Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.
~ Roland Barthes
Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
Nulla turba e sconcerta piú di due occhi vani che dimostrino di non vederci, o di non vedere ciò che noi vediamo. Perché guardi cosí? E nessuno pensa che tutti dovremmo guardare sempre cosí, ciascuno con gli occhi pieni dell'orrore della propria solitudine senza scampo).
~ Luigi Pirandello
O olho do homem serve de fotografia ao invisível, como o ouvido serve de eco ao silêncio.
~ Machado de Assis
São olhos refletidos
~ Machado de Assis
We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Calvin said, Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses? I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father. Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes, Calvin said. Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
We do not know what things look like, as you say, the beast said. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing, this seeing.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
Lords of spirit, Lords of breath, Lords of fireflies, stars, and light, Who will keep the world from death? Who will stop the coming night? Blue eyes, blue eyes, have the sight.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart." 1 Samuel 16:7 Introduction Goliath "Am I a dog that you should come to
~ Malcolm Gladwell
Until you can see it in your mind, you will not see it with your eyes. Vision precedes sight.
~ Mensah Oteh