Quotes About Vision

I believe in spectacles, but I think eyes necessary too.

High characters (cries one), and he would seeThings that ne'er were, nor are, nor ne'er will be.

Behind those thick glasses (of TR's) was a man who did not blink.

He did not so much follow his father's example as his father's vision.

John Hay on Lincoln: "He always worked with things as they were, while never relinquishing the desire to make them better.

School is about creating loyalty to certain goals and habits, a vision of life, support for a class structure, an intricate system of human relationships cleverly designed to manufacture the continuous low level of discontent upon which mass production and finance rely.

A Brown University alum, Angell's vision for Michigan was to create a university that could provide "an uncommon education for the common man.

Vatican II thus became, I repeat, a meeting in which the church explored and articulated anew its identity, recalled and developed its most precious values, and proclaimed to the world its sublime vision for humanity.

He thought, in fine, that the dreams of poets were the realities of life.

SIR,—Although I sent the following narrative to an Edinburgh newspaper, with the editor of which I was well acquainted; yet he refused to give it publicity, on the ground that it was only a dream of the imagination: but if a man cannot be believed in what he hears and sees, what is he to be believed in?

Rome is not eternal; it does not matter. Rome will fall; it does not matter. The barbarian will conquer; it does not matter. There was a moment of Rome, and it will not wholly die; the barbarian will become the Rome he conquers; the language will smooth his rough tongue; the vision of what he destroys will flow in his blood. And in time that is ceaseless as this salt sea upon which I am so frailly suspended, the cost is nothing, is less than nothing.

Stoner and Masters smiled at each other, and they spoke no more of the question that evening. But for years afterward, at odd moments, Stoner remembered what Masters had said; and though it brought him no vision of the University to which he had committed himself, it did reveal to him something about his relationship to the two men, and it gave him a glimpse of the corrosive and unspoiled bitterness of youth.

He saw good men go down into a slow decline of hopelessness, broken as their vision of a decent life was broken;

Hij begreep dat hij in die toekomst zou veranderen, maar hij zag de toekomst zelf als het instrument van verandering en niet als het doel ervan.

The past gathered out of the darkness where it stayed, and the dead raised themselves to live before him; and the past and the dead flowed into the present among the alive, so that he had for an intense instant a vision of denseness into which he was compacted and from which he could not escape, and had no wish to escape.

When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange, because it began before I even knew what a city was.

It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts.

The man who radiates good cheer, who makes life happier wherever he meets it, is always a man of vision and faith.

Worry is blind, and cannot discern the future; but Jesus sees the end from the beginning.

Shall we lay hold upon the hope set before us in the gospel that we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is?

The love of money is the root of all evil. It blinds the vision and prevents people from discerning their obligations to God or to their neighbors.—

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain. Homo sapiens gangs up to 70 percent of its sense receptors solely for vision, to anticipate danger and recognize reward, but also—more so—for beauty.

For bighorns, topography is memory, enhanced by acute vision. They can anticipate the land's every contour--when to leap, where to climb, when to turn, which footholds will support their muscular bodies. To survive, this is what the band would have to do: make this perfect match of flesh to earth.