Quotes about sight often emphasize the significance and beauty of our ability to see. They highlight the value of vision in perceiving the world around us and appreciating its wonders. These quotes offer insights into the power of observation, the role of sight in understanding, and the joy of witnessing life's many marvels.
The eye sees what it brings the power to see. — Thomas Carlyle
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. — Miyamoto Musashi
And one eye-witness weighs
More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing,
All the world o'er. — Plautus
The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. — Luis Barragan
Seeing is more than a physiological phenomenon... We see not only with our eyes but with all that we are and all that our culture is. The artist is a professional see-er. — Dorothea Lange
Vision is the ability to see God’s presence, to perceive God’s power, to focus on God’s plan in spite of the obstacles. — Charles R. Swindoll
We see in order to move; we move in order to see. — William Gibson
What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. — Proverbs
The ability to see the good in others and the bad in ourselves is perfect vision. — John Wooden
Blessed are those who, in the face of death, think only about the front sight. — Jeff Cooper
I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing. — Mary Oliver
Time and reflection change the sight little by little 'till we come to understand. — Paul Cezanne
Sight Image Quotes
My sight
My heart
My Life
All three words I have woven into one ... Love. — Rumi
No sight is more provocative of awe than is the night sky. — Llewelyn Powys
I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that. — Kitty Carlisle
It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing. — Howard Carter
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Walk By Faith Not By Sight Quotes
I'm not walking by sight- I'm, walking by faith — T. D. Jakes
Scripture teaches us that we should trust God and not lean on our own wisdom or understanding. To do this, we have to strive to know God intimately, walking by faith and not by sight. This may not be easy at first, but it starts with simple obedience. — Craig Groeschel
We should not rely on our feelings; we had to walk by faith and not by sight. If we preserve in the Lord, we always succeed. — Angus Buchan
Never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
We all learned valuable lessons from that crop. The Lord showed us the importance of walking by faith, and not by sight, of trusting him unconditionally and never giving up. — Angus Buchan
When you see no present advantage, walk by faith and not by sight. Do God the honor to trust Him when it comes to matters of loss for the sake of principle. — Charles Spurgeon
Beautiful Sight Quotes
Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give them three seconds of sight. — Shane Koyczan
And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight. — Jack Kerouac
There is no more beautiful sight in all this world than to see a family praying together. There is real meaning behind the oft-quoted ‘The family that prays together stays together. — Thomas S. Monson
Don't lose sight of ordinary people with extraordinary hearts.
Truly there is no more beautiful sight than to see the earth from space beyond ! — Ronald McNair
It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon. — Galileo Galilei
Do you believe in love after last sight? — Kami Garcia
I know nothing with any certainty. But the sight of the stars make me dream.
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life. — Lewis Mumford
You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it. — Clive Barker
There is no more beautiful sight than a young woman who glows with the light of the spirit who is confident and courageous because she is virtuous. — Elaine S. Dalton
In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art. — Rumi
Eye Sight Quotes
Unforgiveness is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye-sight. In its train are endless ills. — Florence Scovel Shinn
The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye. — Jacques Derrida
O Allah,
You know that the only thing I want in this life
Is to be obedient to Your command.
Even the living sight of my eyes
Is service at your court — Rabia Basri
You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can see the whole trip that way.
Nature is man's teacher. She unfolds her treasures to his search, unseals his eye, illumes his mind, and purifies his heart; an influence breathes from all the sights and sounds of her existence. — Alfred Nobel
The sight of you is good for sore eyes. — Jonathan Swift
You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark. — Helen Keller
As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything freezes for a second, as though I’m looking at him through my camera lens, zoomed in all the way, the world pausing for that tiny span of time between the opening and closing of the shutter. — Lauren Oliver
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. — Ovid
All of the stock market’s secrets are in plain sight. But few eyes can see them. — Thomas Phelps
Out Of Mind Out Of Sight Quotes
Out of sight, out of mind. The absent are always in the wrong. — Thomas Kempis
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. — Leo Rosten
We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war. — Keith Ablow
The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision
I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. — John Lennon
To achieve you need a to-do list. To achieve greatness you need a not-to-do list. Use this tip for your personal success and business goals. Start writing down aspirations you don’t need to get done right now and use as monthly moonshot goals. I prefer to call this a “not-yet-list.” It helps keep your “to-do-list” shorter without losing sight of a great idea. Eventually items from the not-yet-list move to the to-do-list.
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. — Thomas Kempis
These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws. — Steve Finley
You know why you are doing something. And if it is against your life, your principles and ideals it is bothersome. And no one wants to be bothered. So you conveniently try to curtain it off, turn a blind eye, and put it out of sight so that it won't bother you. This is what the Mind does. — Chidananda Saraswati
Mistakes are like the memories you hide in an attic: old love letters from relationships that tanked, photos of dead relatives, toys from a childhood you miss. Out of sight is out of mind, but somewhere deep inside you know they still exist. And you also know that you're avoiding them. — Jodi Picoult
Out Of Sight Quotes
The experiences are so innumerable and varied, that the journey appears to be interminable and the Destination is ever out of sight. But the wonder of it is, when at last you reach your Destination you find that you had never travelled at all! It was a journey from here to Here. — Meher Baba
Go in any direction..seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs. — Paula Radcliffe
My favourite pub game is, of course, snooker. Any game whose rules basically amount to finding a table covered in mess and slowly and methodically putting it all away out of sight is one with which I can empathise emphatically. — Jon Richardson
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows. — John Betjeman
For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. — Aeschylus
Dont forget where you are from, but never lose sight of where you are going!
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town. — Patrick MacGill
Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him. — Charles Davis
O my soul, what are you doing? Are you not aware that God sees you always? You can never hide yourself from His sight. O Father, have pity on us because we are blind and in darkness. Drive out the darkness and give me light. Melt the ice of my self-love and kindle in me the fire of Your charity. — St. Catherine of Siena
Your goal should be out of reach but not out of sight. — Anita DeFrantz
First Sight Quotes
People believe those fairytales about falling in love at first sight at the bus, subway, or at the streets. But it doesn’t make sense how they’d laugh at the ones who fell in love at first sight through TV screens. Loving a celebrity IS a type of love. Love is fair to everyone. — Tablo
Love at first sight? I absolutely believe in it! You've got to keep the faith. Who doesn't like the idea that you could see someone tomorrow and she could be the love of your life? It's very romantic. — Leonardo DiCaprio
Set your sights high, the higher the better.
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. — Karl Marx
It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight. — Vladimir Nabokov
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as with a person. — Alec Waugh
Was it love at first sight? It wasn't then - but it sure is now. — Anne Meara
First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever. — Rosemary Rogers
Love At First Sight Quotes
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems. — Keanu Reeves
I want a Sunday kind of love
A love to last past Saturday night
And I’d like to know it’s more than love at first sight — Etta James
Love is born at first sight; the friendship of a frequent and lengthy exchange. — Octavio Paz
They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up. — Daniel Wallace
I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you. — Cassandra Clare
I don't have an ideal type; I'm more of a love-at-first-sight guy. — Onew
All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected. — Edouard Boubat
It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. — Cassandra Clare
Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate. — Barbara Hershey
I just don't believe in love at first sight any more, even though I've based my whole career on the concept. — Hugh Grant
Sight And Sound Quotes
You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind; a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead—your next stop, the Twilight Zone. — Rod Serling
Memory warps time, as it does the sights and sounds and smells of reality; for what shapes it is emotion, which can twist what seems clear, just as the surface of a pond seems to bend the stick thrust into the water. — Sherwood Smith
Those who purchase meat, fur, and leather have no right to be shielded from the sights and sounds of the slaughterhouses from which these products were produced. — Peter Singer
Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again. — C. S. Lewis
Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds and silences. — Gene Stratton-Porter
Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers. — Charles Bukowski
There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought. — Zora Neale Hurston
We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present. — Alan Gussow
Look in, look the storm in the eye. Look out, to the sea and the sky. Look around, at the sight and sound. Look in, look out, look around. — Neil Peart
Through seven figures come sensations for a man; there is hearing for sounds, sight for the visible, nostril for smell, tongue for pleasant or unpleasant tastes, mouth for speech, body for touch, passages outwards and inwards for hot or cold breath. Through these come knowledge or lack of it. — Hippocrates
Of Sight Out Of Mind Quotes
But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind. — Margaret Atwood
I don't want to be too over-exposed, but then at the same time I don't want to be too out-of-sight-out-of-mind. — Ludacris
Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of sight. — John Locke
And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind. — Thomas a Kempis
As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind. — Walter de La Mare
Two days like icebergs bleak, blank, half-melting, all frigid, mainly out of sight, and definitely a threat to peace of mind drifted by and were good to put behind. — Roger Zelazny
Most artists are always fighting for their fame. They have that fear, like the saying goes, "out of sight, out of mind." They need to keep themselves out there. I have never had that fear. If I have any fear, it's not doing enough to reach people. — Chuck D
Out of sight, out of mind' applies with even greater force to entertainers than to lovers. — Arlene Francis
Out Of Sight Out Of Mind Quotes
Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. — Charlotte Mason
When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place. — Yusef Lateef
We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind. — Dale Jamieson
That out of sight is out of mind is true of most we leave behind. — Arthur Hugh Clough
As the courts keep pushing religion out of sight, the press either ignores it or treats it as some sort of emotional affliction. It is hardly any wonder that religion slowly loses its grip on the popular mind. — Robert Bork
Many people make their own God; and he is much what the French may mean when they talk of le bon Dieu,--very indulgent, rather weak, near at hand when we want anything, but far away out of sight when we have a mind to do wrong. Such a God is as much an idol as if he were an image of stone. — Julius Charles Hare
The issue I focus on the most is extreme poverty. I think it's kind of out of sight out of mind. I wish there would be more stories about that to connect people to what's happening. To personalize it, to make it real to people, to inspire them to action. — John Legend
Fruit often ends up rotting in the crisper drawer. Well, that's the wrong place to put it. Out of sight, out of mind. The kids all know where the junk-food shelf is. Make the fruit that easy to get to. Put a big huge bowl of fruit on the counter. — Tyler Florence
As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. — Julius Caesar
Plain Sight Quotes
The donkey is hiding but his ears are sticking out in plain sight. — Moroccan Proverbs
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all. — Gerard Way
Jesus said, Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you. For there is nothing hidden that shall not become manifest. — Thomas the Apostle
There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it. — Larry Dossey
This is an occupation known as painting, which calls for imagination, and skill of hand, in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist. — Cennino Cennini
There's a wide range of sales ability: there are many gradations between novices, experts, and masters. There are even sales grandmasters. If you don't know any grandmasters, it's not because you haven't encountered them, but rather because their art is hidden in plain sight. — Peter Thiel
The most dangerous and successful conspiracies take place in public, in plain sight, under the clear, bright light of day -- usually with TV cameras focused on them. — L. Neil Smith
What a hideout: Holiness lies spread and borne over the surface of time and stuff like color. — Annie Dillard
The American oligarchy spares no pains in promoting the belief that it does not exist, but the success of its disappearing act depends on equally strenuous efforts on the part of an American public anxious to believe in egalitarian fictions and unwilling to see what is hidden in plain sight. — Michael Lind
Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds. — James Geary
Every organization needs to be introspective, transparent, and honest with itself. This only works if everyone is unified on the goals and purposes of the organization and there is trust within the team. High-performing, successful organizations build cultures of introspection and trust and never lose sight of their purpose. — Colin Powell
Have you ever sent a loved son on vacation, and had him returned to you in a pine box, so horribly battered and water-logged that someone needs to tell you this sickening sight is your son, lynched? — Mamie Till
There is a light in this world, a healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways. — Mother Teresa
I am proud of my country. But we need to unite to make a unified India, free of communalism and casteism. We need to build India into a land of equal opportunity for all. We can be a truly great nation if we set our sights high and deliver to the people the fruits of continued growth, prosperity and equal opportunity. — Ratan Tata
When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero. — Ivan Pavlov
Tear down the mosque, the temple, everything in sight. But don't break a human heart. For that is where God resides. — Bulleh Shah
What does patience mean? It means to look at the thorn and see the rose, to look at the night and see the dawn. Impatience means to be short sighted as to not be able to see the outcome. The lovers of God never run out of patience, for they know that time is needed for the crescent moon to become full. — Shams Tabrizi
The best things in life are free. And it is important never to lose sight of that. So look around you. Wherever you see friendship, loyalty, laughter, and love...there is your treasure. — Neale Donald Walsch
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. — Dante Alighieri
I've been to the Leaning Tower of Pisa. It's a tower, and it's leaning. You look at it, but nothing happens, so then you look for someplace to get a sandwich. — Danny Devito
If the going is tough and the pressure is on, If the reserves of strength have been drained and the summit is still not in sight, then the quality to seek in the person is neither great strength nor quickness of hand, but rather a resolute mind firmly set on its purpose that refuses to let its body slack or rest. — Edmund Hillary
Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of charity because Jesus Christ tells us that a glass of water would not go unrewarded. You see, therefore, my children, that although we may be quite poor, we can still easily give alms. — John Vianney
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people -- your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. — Barbara Bush
We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. — Gloria Gaither
If the earth were flat from east to west, the stars would rise as soon for westerners as for orientals, which is false. Also, if the earth were flat from north to south and vice versa, the stars which were always visible to anyone would continue to be so wherever he went, which is false. But it seems flat to human sight because it is so extensive. — Ptolemy
Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way. — Barbara Bush
The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight. — John Berger
I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing. — Yoweri Museveni
Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest. — Leonardo da Vinci
With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe. — Paul Laurence Dunbar
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us. — Jean Paul
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. — Joseph Conrad
In Conclusion
Such quotes also acknowledge the importance of sight beyond physical vision. They bring attention to the idea that sight goes beyond the eyes, encompassing the ability to comprehend and perceive things on a deeper level. These quotes encourage us to cherish the gift of sight and to use it wisely to explore, learn, and experience the vastness of the world.
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