Quotes
Quotes about Vision
The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision.
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
Our American values are not luxuries but necessities, not the salt in our bread, but the bread itself. Our common vision of a free and just society is our greatest source of cohesion at home and strength abroad, greater than the bounty of our material blessings.
Vision with action is a daydream; action without vision is a nightmare.
It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.
The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.
Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leave them there and they don't get out and interact with actual flesh-and-blood humansâ you know the answer before I say itâ that's not good.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
I have always fought for ideasâuntil I learned that it isn't ideas but grief, struggle, and flashes of vision which enlighten.
Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
Where there is no vision a people perish.
No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
Concerning perfect blessed ness which consists in a vision of God. [Lat., Circa beatitudinem perfectam, quae in Dei visione consistit.]
I have also spoken by the prophets, and I have multiplied visions, and used similitudes, by the ministry of the prophets.
Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream.
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crown not on my soul.
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And say, within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel, writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said-- "What writest thou?" The Vision raised its head, And, with a look made all of sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord."
It is a dream, sweet child! a waking dream, A blissful certainty, a vision bright, Of that rare happiness, which even on earth Heaven gives to those it loves.
An angel stood and met my gaze, Through the low doorway of my tent; The tent is struck, the vision stays; I only know she came and went.
O visions ill foreseen! Better had I Liv'd ignorant of future, so had borne My part of evil only.
My thoughts by night are often filled With visions false as fair: For in the past alone, I build My castles in the air.
Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame, And poet's vision of eternal fame.
Our revels are now ended. These our actors As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air; And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all of which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Is rounded with a sleep.
