Sight Quotes
2271 quotes by 1644 authors
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I learnt to distrust all physical concepts as the basis for a theory. Instead one should put one's trust in a mathematical scheme, even if…
— Paul Dirac
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At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole from which it…
— Georges Cuvier
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The first effect of the mind growing cultivated is that processes once multiple get to be performed in a single act. Lazarus has called this…
— William James
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Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts…
— A C Dixon
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I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight…
— John B. S. Haldane
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It takes a trained and discerning researcher to keep the goal in sight, and to detect evidence of the creeping progress toward it.
— John Charles Polanyi
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Genocide is like a dessert. It is made of the flesh and bones of woman and children, it is sweetened with the blood of the…
— Terry Brooks
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In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed. Faith must trample underfoot all reason, sense, and understanding, and whatever it sees must be put out of…
— Martin Luther
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Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Sight is what you see with your eyes, vision is what you see with your mind.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the…
— Samuel Johnson
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Man is very much a creature of habit. A thing that rarely strikes his senses will generally have but little influence upon his mind. A…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.
— Robert Kennedy
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In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their car while she…
— Anne Robinson
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If I could live in a tiny dwelling on a rock in the ocean, surrounded by the waves of the sea and cut off from…
— Cuthbert
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Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.
— Daniel Okrent
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No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights…
— Billie Jean King
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The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of…
— Tom Seaver
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