Quotes About Sight

Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.

What torments me is not the humps nor hollows nor the ugliness. It is the sight, a little bit in all these men, of Mozart murdered.

O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!

I am a visual man. I watch, watch, watch. I understand things through my eyes.

What a man may value highly, is detestable in God's sight.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Music must be seen, and dance must be heard

The sight of such a monument is like continual and stationary music, which one hears for one's good as one approaches it.

Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.

Humans' eyes cannot take in information when there is zero light reflecting back

Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds.

A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

It was quite a sight to see Obama next to President Hu. Obama has a Nobel Peace Prize in his basement, and Hu has a Nobel Peace Prize winner in his.

Our eyes see only that which language can explain, but our hearts see that which is invisible and unexplainable.

From now until eternity meets its end, you will walk by faith and not by sight.

To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

On sighting mathematicians poetry should unhook the algebra from their minds and replace it with poetry; on sighting poets it should unhook poetry from their minds and replace it with algebra.

Every eye makes its own perception.

In some languages (Hindi is one), every perception is called "seeing". Maybe, the trick is to rely on the eyes less and less as one perceives more and more.

Love comes in at the eye.

Good day to you, Sister," Gannon grunted, gritting his teeth and clenching the reins in a white-knuckled grip. "May you live to see your great-grandchildren, and may your eyes never grow dim!" Rolin stifled a snicker. His spinster aunt was childless, and her eyesight was poor from years of needlework.

Story tells us of some Turks who have, upon the sight of Mahomet's tomb, put their eyes out, that they might not defile them, forsooth! with any common object after they had been blessed with seeing one so sacred.