Afar Quote by Pliny the Elder

Objects which are usually the motives of our travels by land and by sea are often overlooked and neglected if they lie under our…

— Pliny the Younger

We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us...…

— Ai Yazawa

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

— Anonymous

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that…

— Dorothy Gilman

We are so focused on the material aspects of life that we lose sight of everything else.

— Wally Amos

We accomplish things by directing our desires, not by ignoring them.

— Anonymous

The human mind is scattered. We have become negligent about our distractions, inertia, confusion, doubt, fear, and anger.

— Rajmani Tigunait

Gaze steadfastly at things which, though far away, are yet present to the mind.

— Parmenides

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we…

— Anonymous

Whensoever we would proceed beyond [the] simple ideas we have from sensation and reflection, and dive farther into the nature of things, we fall…

— John Locke

Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to…

— Frederick Lenz

Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to the utmost…

— David Hume