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Quotes About Vision

I see black light (his last words)
~ Victor Hugo
For even the very wise cannot see all ends.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
~ Stanislav Grof
No es preciso tener una visión evolucionada de la vida para ansiar poder, ni para alcanzarlo. De hecho, una visión evolucionada de la vida puede ser el peor obstáculo, mientras que la carencia de esa visión puede ser la ventaja más espléndida.
~ Philip Roth
prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.
~ Philip Yancey
That, at least, is the vision of the church in the New Testament: a colony of heaven in a hostile world. Dwight L. Moody said, "Of one hundred men, one will read the Bible; the ninety-nine will read the Christian.
~ Philip Yancey
Can we live now "as if " God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The prophets proclaim that history will be determined not by the past or present, but by the future.
~ Philip Yancey
Pharisees spend too much time around other Pharisees. As a result Pharisees (whether the Jewish or Christian variety) neglect wider issues, narrow their vision, and compete to achieve an artificial piety.
~ Philip Yancey
We must stop setting our sights by the light of each passing ship; instead we must set our course by the stars. GEORGE MARSHALL
~ Philip Yancey
Yes, Your Grace, I correct her. I am My Lady, the King's Mother, now, and you shall curtsey to me, as low as to a queen of royal blood. This was my destiny: to put my son on the throne of England, and those who laughed at my visions and doubted my vocation will call me My Lady, the King's Mother, and I shall sign myself Margaret Regina: Margaret R.
~ Philippa Gregory
Sometimes you cannot help what you hear, you cannot help what you see.
~ Philippa Gregory
I feel as if I can think only when I see the words flowing from the nib of my quill, that my thoughts make sense only when they are black ink on cream paper. I love the sensation of a thought in my head and the vision of the word on the page.
~ Philippa Gregory
I am a dreamer, he concedes. I don't deny it, but I have seen enough to know the world. Perhaps my dream is of a better one.
~ Philippa Gregory
Imagination is a form of seeing
~ Unknown
You don't make art, you find it
~ Unknown
To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing. Picasso
~ Unknown
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others that have a larger vision. The immense fulfillment of the friendships between those engaged in furthering the evolution of consciousness has a quality almost impossible to describe.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
There is almost a sensual longing for communion with others who have a large vision.
~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
He said: Who then are the true philosophers? Those, I said, who are lovers of the vision of truth. That is also good, he said; but I should like to know what you mean? To
~ Plato
When the mind's eye is fixed on objects illuminated by truth and reality, it understands and knows them, and its possession of intelligence is evident; but when it is fixed on the twilight world of change and decay, it can only form opinions, its vision is confused and its opinions shifting, and it seems to lack intelligence.
~ Plato
It is the duty of us, the founders, then, said I, to compel the best natures to attain the knowledge which we pronounced the greatest, and to win to the vision of good, to scale the ascent, and when they have reached the heights and taken an adequate view, we must not allow what is now permitted. What is that? That they should linger there, I said, and refuse to go down again among those bondsmen and share their labors and honors, whether they are of less or of greater worth.
~ Plato
La vista del entendimiento, ten por cierto, empieza a ver adecuadamente cuando la de los ojos comienza a perder su fuerza, y tú todavía estás lejos de eso.
~ Platon
To see the supreme which is also the means to the vision; for that which illuminates the Soul is that which is to see.
~ Plotinus
To see the supreme which is also the means to the vision; for that which illuminates the Soul id that which is to see.
~ Plotinus