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Vision Quotes by William James
- The gist of the matter is this: Every impression that comes in from without, be it a sentence which we hear, an object of vision,…
- Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites,…
- The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
- The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence…
- Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take…
More Vision Quotes
- So yeah, a good director will be able to listen and hear everything, but have a confident vision of his own that… — Christian Bale
- Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration… — C.S. Lewis
- There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If… — Mark Twain
- We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot… — ZhatsPrincess
- 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
- Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see… — Louisa May Alcott
- Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing. — A. R. Ammons