Quotes About Vision

La oscuridad es vertiginosa; el hombre necesita claridad; el que se interna en las tinieblas se siente con el corazón oprimido. Cuando la mirada ve oscura, el espíritu ve turbio.

le reve est l'aquarium de la nuit.

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two possesses the larger field of vision? Choose. A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars.

Le rêve est l'aquarium de la nuit

As she neared her destination, she took her glasses off. She hadn't come to the point where she trusted the world as seen through a lens.

The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

You see things and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were And say, 'Why not?'" —George Bernard Shaw

It was all out there—the mystery, the beauty; beyond her ability to see now, but there just the same. It was simply a matter of timing and perspective, what one saw.

He saw his whole life in her eyes, all his dreams and hopes and fears.

How do you keep hold of a dream like that?" "With both hands.

My skin has the crinkled appearance of wax paper that someone has tried to flatten and reuse. My eyes fail me often—in the darkness, when headlights flash, when rain falls. It is unnerving, this new unreliability in my vision. Perhaps that's why I find myself looking backward. The past has a clarity I can no longer see in the present.

A warrior believes in an end she can't see and fights for it.

Seeing where we're going ain't any better than seeing where we've been. The view never changes.

Uneori, daca ai noroc, poti privi pe cineva in ochi si poti vedea intreg viitorul. Le doresc o astfel de dragoste copiilor tai - nu te multumi cu mai putin.

some images, once seen, can never be forgotten.

she looked into the child's eyes and saw a future there, long and beautiful and bright, a future that would go on after Yona herself had passed from the world, a future still unwritten.

You know, you don't see with your eyes You see with your brain And the more words your brain has The more things you can see

Take lights and deform them as brutally as you can.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

We are what we imagine ourselves to be.

you're so blinded by the perfect vision of what you want that you can't appreciate the gift you have right in front of you.

Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

David," Magic Johnson said in the eighties, "has this unbelievable gift for seeing around the corner before anyone else.