Sight quotes

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.