Sight Quotes

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. (Marcus Aurelius)
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. View quote
André Gide
The advantage of love at first sight is that it delays a second sight. View quote
Natalie Clifford Barney
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. View quote
André Gide
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist. View quote
Mark Twain
I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse. View quote
Walt Disney
Variants include "You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." View quote
Christopher Columbus
We must never lose sight of the fact that the law has a moral foundation, and we must never fail to ask ourselves not only what the law is, but what the law should be. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. View quote
George Eliot
Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. (Alexander Pope)
Perception is strong and sight weak. In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things. View quote
Miyamoto Musashi
We endeavour to employ only symmetrical figures, such as should not only be an aid to reasoning, through the sense of sight, but should also be to some extent elegant in themselves. View quote
John Venn
Who ever loved that loved not at first sight? View quote
Christopher Marlowe
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience. View quote
John Cale
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. View quote
Herman Melville
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. View quote
Vincent van Gogh
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. View quote
Anthony Powell
A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. View quote
Karl Marx
That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key. (Elizabeth Wurtzel)
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion. View quote
Germaine Greer
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. View quote
Maimonides
When you're special to a cat, you're special indeed, she brings to you the gift of her preference of you, the sight of you, the sound of your voice, the touch of your hand. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. View quote
Henry David Thoreau