Visible Quotes

821 Visible quotes by 629 unique authors

During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still… — Wendell Berry
Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of… — Nancy Etcoff
What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality. I am seeking for the bridge which leans… — Max Beckmann
As each human being is an integral part of the collective human consciousness, they affect the world much more deeply than is visible on the… — Eckhart Tolle
Peace is more of an internal settlement rather than what is visible on the external. — Criss Jami
There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a fancied… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have… — Galileo Galilei
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. — Thomas Fuller
Chicago's one of the rare places where architecture is more visible. — Frank Gehry
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more… — Khalil Gibran
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work… — Khalil Gibran
It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface. — Al Gore
Of all things visible, the highest is the heaven of the fixed stars. — Nicolaus Copernicus
Fine art is knowledge made visible. — Gustave Courbet
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal. — Gustave Courbet
My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the… — Jacques Derrida
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies… — George Eliot
The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. — Gustave Flaubert
Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must… — David Hackworth
Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political… — Vaclav Havel
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. — Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.… — Victor Hugo
How are things visible? Can you see an egg against a white background? Not by drawing a line around it can you make it evident. — William Morris Hunt

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