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Quotes About Vision

Imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.
~ Robert Breault
Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
~ Havelock Ellis
Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!
~ Jacques Lipchitz
Stern men with empires in their brains.
~ James Russell Lowell
Anything a man can imagine, another can create
~ Jules Verne
The function of art is to free the spirit of man and to invigorate and enlarge his vision.
~ Katherine Sophie Dreier
A man who excels in creating new things is the one who is good at dreaming when not sleeping.
~ Khem Veasna
Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.
~ Rumi
If you think you're a leader, and you look over your shoulder and there ain't nobody following you, man, you're just takin' a walk.
~ Sam Nunn
History is rarely made by reasonable men.
~ Terry Goodkind
It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.
~ Theodore Parker
We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
~ Tom Waits
A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.
~ Wilhelm Raabe
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas.
~ William Bernbach
This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.
~ Wilson Greatbatch
Eyesight for an eagle is what thought is to a man.
~ Dejan Stojanovic
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
~ Ezra Pound
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
~ Edmund Burke
When men and women think, the first step to progress is taken.
~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Great times call for great men.
~ Jaroslav Hašek
The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
All great men are partially inspired.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero