Sighted Quotes

94 Sighted quotes by 84 unique authors

Air Power is, above all, a psychological weapon - and only short-sighted soldiers, too battle-minded, underrate the importance of psychological factors in war. — B. H. Liddell Hart
Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth… — Pope Benedict XVI
I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people — Doc Watson
Gary Snyder's The Practice of the Wild is an exquisite, far-sighted articulation of what freedom, wildness, goodness, and grace mean, using the lessons of the… — Gretel Ehrlich
Living to create an earthly legacy is a short-sighted goal. — Rick Warren
The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I have… — Anthony Burgess
Small, short-sighted, blonde, barbed - she reminds me of a bright little hedgehog. — Edwina Currie
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles,… — Jules de Goncourt
It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was… — Maurice Nicoll
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of… — Walter E. Williams
He is short-sighted who looks only on the path he treads and the wall on which he leans. — Khalil Gibran
Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader,… — Alberto Manguel
I can think of no greater happiness than to be clear-sighted and know the miracle when it happens. And I can think of no more… — Robert Henri
It seems that not being religious is a form of risk-taking, consistent with other patterns of short-sighted behaviour in men. — Rodney Stark
The worst thing is to be born sighted but to lack vision. — Helen Keller
In truth the most striking figure for the relation of the two is that of the strong blind man carrying the sighted lame man on… — Arthur Schopenhauer
If you borrow money to make money, you've done something magical. On the other hand, if you go into debt to pay your bills or… — Seth Godin
I was near sighted. I was born myopic, and I got glasses, right after that. — Kitty Carlisle
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted… — Naveen Jain
Communists should set an example in being practical as well as far-sighted. For only by being practical can they fulfil the appointed tasks, and only… — Mao Zedong
Hatred is the most clear- sighted, next to genius.... — Claude Bernard
It is short-sighted, not to say stupid, in the correct desire to be relevant as Christian artists in an unchristian age, to pick up the… — Calvin Seerveld
I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted… — Terry Brooks
New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known. Make no mistake, Labour's economic policies were a… — Liam Fox

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