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Sight Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- I suffer whenever I see that common sight of a parent or senior imposing his opinion and way of thinking and being on a young…
- 'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not…
- The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock…
- The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it anew it passes into other…
- Each work of art excludes the world, concentrates attention on itself. For the time it is the only thing worth doing -to do just that;…
- And truly it demands something god like in him who has cast off the common motives of humanity, and has ventured to trust himself for…
- There will be an agreement in whatever variety of actions, so they be each honest and natural in their hour. For of one will, the…
- Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms…
- Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater…
- Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth.
- The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.
- Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.
- It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return…
- Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I…
More Sight Quotes
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight… — Marcus Aurelius
- In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there… — Ansel Adams
- There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make. — James M. Barrie
- In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does… — Saint Basil
- Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas… — Mary Ritter Beard
- As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways,… — Martha Beck
- The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight. — Joseph Addison
- To lose yourself in righteous service to others can lift your sights and get your mind off personal problems, or at least… — Ezra Taft Benson
- It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight. — Annie Besant
- Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus translating itself… — Annie Besant