Vision Quotes

How can you fall in love at first sight when you can't even see?

Melinda Cross

Distance lends enchantment to the view

Mark Twain

... the progress of science still depends on a few people of vision.

Lewis M. Branscomb

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees.

Kenneth G. Wilson

I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune.

Walter Russell

Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics.

Walter Russell

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.

Orrin Woodward

There are two allied powers in man; knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge is so much of the truth seen in a distorted medium as the mind arrives at by groping, wisdom what the eye of divine vision sees in the spirit.

Sri Aurobindo

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.

Mark Twain

It is to do nothing that the elect exist. Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams.

Oscar Wilde

Physical vision - one might say scientific vision - brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer's view of reality as a whole. The geography of the earth, or the structure of the solar system, are in an instant utterly changed, and forever. The explorer, the scientific observer, the literary reader, experience the Sublime: a moment of revelation into the idea of the unbounded, the infinite.

Richard Holmes

Those who look behind will never see beyond.

Sherry K. White

Poets are damned but see with the eyes of angels.

Allen Ginsberg

A man's mind must be continually expanding and shrinking between the whole human horizon and the horizon of an object-glass.

George Eliot

Whitman's masterpiece, his whole vision, is exactly about this: life as a quest for truth, love, beauty, goodness, and freedom; life as the art of becoming human through the cultivation of the human soul.

Rob Riemen

When most I wink, then do my eyes best see

William Shakespeare

Your overnight success story is always a result of everything you have done in your life until that moment.

Bel Pesce

It's easy to see, hard to foresee.

Benjamin Franklin

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.

Ambrose Bierce

Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.

Victor Hugo