Seeing Quotes - page 2

Everybody is of course free to interpret the work in his own way. I think seeing a picture is one thing and interpreting it is another. (Jasper Johns)
The idea is that the state doesn't have rights to limit individuals' wants and passions. I disagree with that. I think we absolutely have rights because there are consequences to letting people live out whatever wants or passions they desire. And we're seeing it in our society. View quote
Rick Santorum
Nothing is old, nothing is new, save the light of grace underneath which beats a human heart. The way of feeling, of understanding, of loving; the way of seeing the country, the faces that your father saw, that your mother knew. The rest is chimerical. View quote
Georges Rouault
Seeing an economy that is, in many ways, quite different from the one grows up in, helps crystallize issues: in one's own environment, one takes too much for granted, without asking why things are the way they are. View quote
Joseph Stiglitz
Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. View quote
Beatrix Potter
Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them... View quote
Nicholas Sparks
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dulled and know I had to put it on the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well oiled in the closet, but unused. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing. View quote
George Santayana
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence. View quote
Azar Nafisi
Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong. (Alan Lightman)
This book endeavors to clear away the mists which prevent so many from seeing the road. View quote
Norman Angell
Why should any man have power over any other man's faith, seeing Christ Himself is the author of it? View quote
George Fox
The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation. View quote
Stella Adler
Seeing is in itself a movement. View quote
Robert Delaunay
A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. View quote
Jane Austen
But we make such mistakes all the time, all through our lives. Wisdom, I suppose, is seeing this and acting upon it before it is too late. But it is often too late, isn't it? – and those things that we should have said are unsaid, and remain unsaid for ever. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best 20-20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. View quote
John Calvin
When I was young, I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything. I used to think, 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world' View quote
Leonardo DiCaprio
I told my wife the truth. I told her I was seeing a psychiatrist. Then she told me the truth: that she was seeing a psychiatrist, two plumbers, and a bartender. (Rodney Dangerfield)
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rhodora If the sages ask thee why This charm is wasted on the earth and sky, Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see. View quote
John D. MacDonald
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past. (1954), p. 75. View quote
Eric Hoffer
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