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Quotes About Sight

As a chef my sense of taste and smell are extremely important. But of all the senses, sight is the one I'd fear losing most.
~ Dave Myers
I think sighted people let their eyes cheat them out of certain things. People who can see don't have a great sense of smell because they don't use it.
~ Jose Feliciano
Para não nos deixar aflitos, a natureza fez bem em restringir ao lado de fora a nossa ação de enxergar.
~ Michel de Montaigne
De todos modos, nosotros no vemos nada, no vemos más que miradas, no un lugar sino un gesto, y siempre el gesto de las manos, las manos cerradas, las manos que se abren, las manos abiertas del todo.
~ Michel Foucault
the human eye can recognize the equivalent of about a million pixels, and a person needs at least 600 pixels to identify faces and familiar objects.)
~ Michio Kaku
the eye was blinded by the blaze of silver boiling in the sun. (185)
~ Mikhail Bulgakov
There is no feminine gaze that I would not forget at the sight of mountains covered with curly vegetation, and illumined by the southern sun, at the sight of the blue sky, or at the sound of a torrent that falls from crag to crag.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.
~ Milan Kundera
As as result of your not knowing, this country has lost its freedom, lost it for centuries, perhaps, and you shout that you feel no guilt? How can you stant the sight of what you've done? How is it you aren't horrified? Have you no eyes to see? If you had eyes, you would have to put them out and wander away from Thebes!
~ Milan Kundera
Take off your glasses." "Why? I thought you liked my glassess." "I love your glasses. I especially love the moment when you take them off.
~ Rainbow Rowell
Love adds a precious seeing to the eye.
~ William Shakespeare
Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its presence.
~ Arthur Frederick Saunders
To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees.
~ C. S. Lewis
What I see is not what I am looking at but what I am looking with. And so my first and principal duty...is to find my eyes of love.
~ Dan Jones
If love wasn't conditional, every single first encounter with individuals of your 'preferred' gender would result in *love at first sight.*
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
The sight touched me. Devotion is so rare, and we are so grateful to those who show it unasked to those we love.
~ Bram Stoker
I've seen things you wouldn't believe, and I believe in things you can't see.
~ Brian Doherty
Dogs can't see in colour, and psychos can't see in human.
~ Bruce Robinson
flap opened on one of the tents, and a gangly figure crawled out. It was Mrs. Starch. She rose slowly, brushing herself off, her eyes blazing at the sight of Nick and Marta.
~ Carl Hiaasen
Seeing, contrary to popular wisdom, isn't believing. It's where belief stops, because it isn't needed anymore.
~ Terry Pratchett
And have you traveled very far? Far as the eye can see. How often have you been there? Often enough to know. What did you see when you were there? Nothing that doesn't show. (from the 1967 song, Baby You're a Rich Man.
~ The Beatles
Light knows when you're looking at it.
~ James Turrell
I don't like your attitude." "My attitude?" he echoed dumbly. "So get thee from my bed and from my sight and speak no more to me this night.
~ Karen Marie Moning
I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish that I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light!" —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass
~ Karen Russell