Quotes About Vision

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

When it's dark enough men see stars.

Man is able to do what he is unable to imagine. His head trails a wake through the galaxy of the absurd.

Few men have imagination enough for reality.

All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

One should conquer the world, not to enthrone a man, but an idea; for ideas exist forever.

A man's life is colored by the dye of his imagination.

A gazebo on top of a welding rig" was how Yul might have described it, if only he had been here.

penetrates your iris, tenderest of sphincters

Once the characteristic numbers of most notions are determined, the human race will have a new kind of tool, a tool that will increase the power of the mind much more than optical lenses helped our eyes, a tool that will be as far superior to microscopes or telescopes as reason is to vision. —LEIBNIZ, Philosophical Essays, TRANS. BY ARLEW AND GARBER

All change happens because one man wants something different.

The sun shafted in and made her eyes glow, picking out glints of yellow in irises that were mostly green and brown.

Good ideas are just there all of a sudden, like angels in the Bible. You cannot ignore them just because they are ridiculous.

They could not see what they could not imagine

You must carry along with you a lively imagination and plenty of romance in your soul. Some of the most wonderful things in the world will seem dull and drab unless you view them in the proper light.

Let's say that people tend to see in themselves what we see in them. The grander our vision, the grander their willingness to access and display the part of them we have shown them.

I suppose I just don't like to think (or believe) that once a man has acquired the gift of dreaming, he should (or even can) ever lose it.

As a child, I was aware that, at night, infrared vision would reveal monsters hiding in the bedroom closet only if they were warm-blooded. But everybody knows that your average bedroom monster is reptilian and cold-blooded.

We're a sleepy nation right now. I want us to be a nation of innovation.

WHAT IS NOW PROVED WAS ONCE ONLY IMAGIND —WILLIAM BLAKE

We've come a long way since Herschel's experiments with rays that were "unfit for vision," empowering us to explore the universe for what it is, rather than for what it seems to be. Herschel would be proud. We achieved true cosmic vision only after seeing the unseeable: a dazzlingly rich collection of objects and phenomena across space and across time that we may now dream of in our philosophy.

If you don't have a dream, you can't have a dream come true

There's nothing like the right telescope in the right hands of the right person at the right time for the right price.