Quotes with (seeing

Quotes 101 till 120 of 140.

  • Henry Ward Beecher The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is the human owl, vigilant in darkness and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • George Santayana The empiricist... thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Publilius Syrus The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Maria Montessori The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • Fred Astaire The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
    Fred Astaire
    American dancer, singer, actor and choreographer (1899 - 1987)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Bryan Fuller The more real the murder is, the less interested I am in seeing it. It's hard enough to watch the news.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Stephane Mallarme The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.
    Stephane Mallarme
    French poet (1842 - 1898)
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  • Sir William Osler The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The worthiest man to be known, and for a pattern to be presented to the world, he is the man of whom we have most certain knowledge. He hath been declared and enlightened by the most clear-seeing men that ever were; the testimonies we have of him are in faithfulness and sufficiency most admirable.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • L. Ron Hubbard There is a condition worse than blindness, and that is, seeing something that isn't there.
    L. Ron Hubbard
    American author and the founder of the Church of Scientology (1911 - 1986)
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  • Fanny Burney There is no looking at a building here after seeing Italy.
    Fanny Burney
    English author (1752 - 1840)
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  • Anatole Broyard There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Benjamin Watson There shouldn't be any looting or anything like that. But we're seeing a lot of frustration, and nobody knows the answer. All of us are saying we need an answer, and what I'm saying is we need, all of us, a heart change so, as America, we can move forward.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Billy Gibbons They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
    Billy Gibbons
    American musician, record producer, and actor (1949 - )
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  • Doug Horton Thinking good thoughts is not enough, doing good deeds is not enough, seeing others follow your good examples is enough.
    Doug Horton
    American Protestant clergyman
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  • C. S. Lewis This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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