Quotes
Quotes about Sight
I hear beyond the range of sound,
I see beyond the range of sight,
New earths and skies and seas around,
And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
It is the month of June,
The month of leaves and roses,
When pleasant sights salute the eyes,
And pleasant scents the noses.
It may be glorious to write
Thoughts that shall glad the two or three
High souls, like those far stars that come in sight
Once in a century.
My soul is full of whispered song,--
My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long
Are full of life and light.
If you will observe, it does n't take
A man of giant mould to make
A giant shadow on the wall;
And he who in our daily sight
Seems but a figure mean and small,
Outlined in Fame's illusive light,
May stalk, a silhouette sublime,
Across the canvas of his time.
I think that saving a little child
And bringing him to his own,
Is a derned sight better business
Than loafing around the throne.
Ye marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding and free
Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea!
Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rains and the sun,
Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily won
God out of knowledge and good out of infinite pain
And sight out of blindness and purity out of a stain.
I am immortal! I know it! I feel it!
Hope floods my heart with delight!
Running on air, mad with life, dizzy, reeling,
Upward I mount--faith is sight, life is feeling,
Hope is the day-star of might!
Babylon in all its desolation is a sight not so awful as that of the human mind in ruins.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
'T is so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so. The strange lustre that surrounds him conceals and shrouds him from us; our sight is there broken and dissipated, being stopped and filled by the prevailing light.
Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.
A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints.
Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
We walk by faith, not by sight.
The weak-sighted cherish what little they can see; the near-sighted turn themselves into microscopes
This places what we must vaguely term slang into the right perspective - the home-made language of the ruled, not the rulers, the acted upon, the used, the used up. It is demonic poetry emerging in flashes of ironic insight.
The ideal reader of my books is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the same books that I have read
The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers.
Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.
Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is.
I do not hesitate to read ... all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable--any real insight or broad human sentiment.
But when he (man) shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. [Lat., Cum autem sublatus fuerit ab oculis, etiam cito transit a mente.]
When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.
