Our Sight Quotes
33 quotes by 30 authors
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Let us today seek to find that place within each of us where dreams are made, where our highest aspirations take shape. Let us confirm…
— Dennis Kucinich
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The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
— Jean Paul
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Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas, converses with…
— Joseph Addison
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Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:…
— Thomas Paine
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We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because our…
— John of Salisbury
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Thy word remaineth for ever, which word now appeareth unto us in the riddle of the clouds, and through the mirror of the heavens, not…
— Saint Augustine
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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded…
— Nikola Tesla
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It takes so much to be a king that he exists only as such. That extraneous glare that surrounds him hides him and conceals him…
— Michel de Montaigne
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It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and…
— Bram Stoker
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Were the eye not of the sun, How could we behold the light? If God's might and ours were not as one, How could His…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther…
— Bernard of Chartres
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come;…
— Madame de Stael
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Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.
— Joseph Addison
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Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our…
— William Crookes
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on…
— Plotinus
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I love the idea that magic and witchcraft and battles between supernatural creatures could be raging all around us but just out of our sight.
— Anthony Horowitz
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Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit…
— Ellen G. White
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We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight…
— Maya Angelou
Who Wrote These Our Sight Quotes
30 authors contributed a total of 33 Our Sight Quotes, led by these top contributors: