Seen Quotes

3,649 quotes from 2,615 authors

What we see shapes the stories we tell ourselves and others, influencing perception and memory. The extensive anthology of 3,051 quotes, contributed by 2,615 different writers, examines the act of seeing from artistic, philosophical, and everyday angles. From the literal to the metaphorical, each expression invites readers to consider how observation, attention, and interpretation color our experience of the world.

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“Children should be seen and not herded”

Bill Liao

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An algorithm must be seen to be believed.

Donald Knuth

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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

Aaron Sorkin

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I've seen a little 'Mighty Boosh.'

Matt Walsh

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“I'd seen more menace in a Care Bear.”

Tom Parker Bowles

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I have to be seen to be believed.

Queen Elizabeth II

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I've seen everything during my career.

Tito Ortiz

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My work should be seen as poetry.

Robert Wilson

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I seen my dad work for like 16, 17 hours a day.

Brandon Ingram

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Beauty seen makes the one who sees it more beautiful.

David Steindl-Rast

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Some things have to be believed to be seen. -Ralph Hodgson

Ann Brashares

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“That I have not seen does not mean I cannot appreciate.”

Nancy Moser

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I had never seen a perfect game or no-hitter thrown.

Phil Humber

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“You may be the most beautiful women I've ever seen.”

Christina Lauren

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There is a lot of 'Halo' movie material no one has ever seen in New Zealand.

Peter Jackson

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Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

A. A. Gill

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A cacophony of whispers is also noise. There are many ways to be heard, and there are many ways to be visible.…

DeRay Mckesson

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To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been…

J. G. Ballard

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~if I wasnt cute if I was the uglest person you have ever seen would you still talk to me~

she's_gone

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God just rescued me. All of the blessings that I've seen come out of my life have been from Him just rescuing…

Lacey Sturm

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“The more you see of evil, the more evil seems limitless. I guess the same goes for good, but I haven't seen…

Danielle Paige

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Whether it will convince or not, depends entirely on what it is in itself, what is there to be seen.

Lucian Freud

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I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd…

David Thewlis

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All in all, Donald Trump appeals to people who want to be seen the way that Donald Trump sees them.

Alicia Garza

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There's been about 75 movies about Jesse James, and I've seen about four of them. He's usually portrayed as this plucky rebel…

Andrew Dominik

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If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother…

John the Apostle

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I'm just a Chicago actor who's a playwright. Even with the success of 'August,' the people in town who come to our…

Tracy Letts

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Of every movie that I've seen multiple times, of every TV show that I was obsessed with, I don't think I was…

Julie Plec

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I have made a number of movies that I have never seen. It's not a matter of ego. It's a matter of…

Christopher Walken

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When Robben joined Chelsea in 2004 nobody realised how good he was. He was seen as an excellent player rather than a…

Jamie Carragher

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The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who sends them…

Johann Most

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I was such a fan of Quentin's growing up. I remembered I wanted to see 'Pulp Fiction' so badly, but my mom…

Paul Rust

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“Above all, there has never been a community that did not cohabit with its dead. But today, socially, the dead are no…

Barbara Duden

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“Taking my tree escape route, I dropped onto the ground with no attempt to be stealthy, since I wanted to be seen…

Deborah Wilde

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I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels.…

David Foster Wallace

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“The organist was almost at the end of the anthem’s long introduction, and as the crescendo increases the cathedral began to glitter…

Susan Howatch

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To day I can see what I have never seen before to day is the day I saw me . Yes me…

ElizaMendoza707

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“I see you, flawed and humble and road weary and proud and still in spite of the deep ache, somehow sure you’ve…

Jeanette LeBlanc

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“I see you, beneath the surface. I see your untamable wild. I see your billowing heart. I see your unshed tears and…

Jeanette LeBlanc

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“Tell me,' I said. 'Tell me when you notice me.' I notice you going into church,' Joshua said. 'I notice your hair,…

Carol Lynch Williams

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