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Vision Quotes by George Eliot
- For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul…
- Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain…
- A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the…
- Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we…
- The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.
- If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's…
- Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to…
- Take your sensibility and use it as a vision
- But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of…
- Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those rare…
More Vision Quotes
- The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further… — Neil Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius
- If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a… — David Axelrod
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery. — Francis Bacon
- So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that… — Christian Bale
- Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear;… — Bruce Barton
- If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams
- Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures… — Cecil Beaton
- Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie