Seen Quotes

Only the dead have seen the end of war. (Plato)
If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. View quote
Isaac Newton
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. View quote
Helen Keller
True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Research is to see what everybody has seen and think what nobody has thought. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen. View quote
Paul Valéry
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best. View quote
George Eliot
An algorithm must be seen to be believed. View quote
Donald Knuth
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough. (Irwin Shaw)
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. View quote
Robertson Davies
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not. View quote
Pablo Picasso
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
When I received the Nobel Prize, the only big lump sum of money I have ever seen, I had to do something with it. The easiest way to drop this hot potato was to invest it, to buy shares. I knew that World War II was coming and I was afraid that if I had shares which rise in case of war, I would wish for war. So I asked my agent to buy shares which go down in the event of war. This he did. I lost my money and saved my soul. View quote
Albert Szent-Györgyi
Only the dead have seen the end of the war. View quote
George Santayana
The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up. View quote
Marilyn Monroe
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one. View quote
Charles Mackay
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a glass hive. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen. (Robert Bresson)
The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. View quote
Ken Thompson
Over every mountain, there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley. View quote
Theodore Roethke
Borders I have never seen one. But I have heard they exist in the minds of some people. View quote
Thor Heyerdahl
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. View quote
John Donne