I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.
~By Helen Keller ~
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.
~By Helen Rowland ~
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
The worst pain a man can suffer: to have insight into much and power over nothing.
~By Herodotus ~
As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.
~By Joseph E. Stiglitz ~
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Worry is spiritual short sight. Its cure is intelligent faith.
~By Paul Brunton ~
Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.
~By Robert M. Pirsig ~
On the wagon sped, and I, as well as my comrades, gave a despairing farewell glance at freedom as we came in sight of the long stone buildings.
~By Nellie Bly ~
The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.
~By Agnes Repplier ~
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. ~
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
It's a very typical UFO sighting. Carter said it changed color and, in the physical report, described it as being about the size of the moon. And he saw it with about twenty-five other people.
~By Dwight Schultz ~
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.
~By Martha Beck ~
I believe in love at first sight. You want that connection, and then you want some problems.
~By Keanu Reeves ~
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
~By Ansel Adams ~
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature.
~By Hans Hofmann ~
Although important nuclear physics work was to go on in laboratories such as ours had become - and we had to cut down to a lower energy group - it was not fundamentally opening up new insights on the structure of matter. That required you to be in a higher league.
~By John Henry Carver ~
While advances in scientific research have led to some new and exciting treatments that have enlarged and enhanced the quality and length of human life, we must not lose sight as to what we are trying to accomplish.
~By Nathan Deal ~
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold of the insight, that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities.
~By Sri Aurobindo ~
What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
~By Victor Cherbuliez ~
Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.
~By Don Henley ~
It's a required part of your film history to know who Woody is. His movies are so wonderful, and not just funny but so insightful about human behavior.
~By Scarlett Johansson ~
Sometimes it's said that psychiatrists are doctors who are frightened by the sight of blood. I might have fallen into that category.
~By Robert Jay Lifton ~
It's hard for me to talk about Dom right now because I am Dom right now. So it's a really strange exercise to try to reflect on something that I am at the moment. But I guarantee you that when I'm done with the movie and you ask me that question, I'll be able to give you something insightful.
~By Vin Diesel ~
The plan we developed to deal with al Qaeda depended on developing sources of human and technical intelligence that could give us insights into his plans at the tactical level. This is easy to say but hard to accomplish.
~By Cofer Black ~
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.
~By Jared Diamond ~
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.
~By Karl Marx ~
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.
~By Jeremy Rifkin ~
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
~By Ken Follett ~
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
~By William Shakespeare ~
And like the old soldier in that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the sight to see that duty.
~By Douglas MacArthur ~
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
~By Joseph Conrad ~
The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.
~By John Barton ~
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable.
~By John Bates Clark ~
A portal is a transitionary device of sight or sound that functions as a sort of third gravitating body between the this and the that, pulling us toward itself, allowing us to bridge into the unknown from the known.
~By Roy H. Williams ~
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
But, I would be naive not to recognize the number of musicians who tell me they have been influenced by me and sight me - as well as Alex and Neil - as a musician who has been a positive influence on their playing.
~By Geddy Lee ~
I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
~By Xander Berkeley ~
People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
~By Albert Ellis ~
The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.
~By Charles de Lint ~
All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
~By Marie Curie ~
One of the problems we saw in the last presidential election in our party is that our nominee, while winning the election, which we ought never to forget, often lost sight of the difference between strategy and tactics.
~By Paul Begala ~
If the area were on or near the U.S. continental shelf, such data could well provide an enemy with strategically invaluable insights into undersea access routes that could be used to attack some of the millions of Americans who live on or near our coasts.
~By Frank Gaffney ~
When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
~By Yusef Lateef ~
Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
~By Walter Lippmann ~
I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.
~By Johnny Cash ~
Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace.
~By John Desmond Bernal ~
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
~By Helen Keller ~
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
~By George Eliot ~
Circumstances may cause interruptions and delays, but never lose sight of your goal.
~By Mario Andretti ~
I can't bear to see myself even in movies. The feeling is complex. I can't stand the sight of myself.
~By Nat King Cole ~
Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.
~By Henry R. Luce ~
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.
~By Lester B. Pearson ~
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.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.
~By Jim Fiebig ~
Hindsight is a wonderful thing.
~By David Beckham ~
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.
~By Jay Inslee ~
I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.
~By Davy Jones ~
Now here is a departure from the first principle of true ethics. Here we find ideas of moral wrong and moral right associated with something else than beneficial action. The consequent is, we lose sight of the real basis of morals, and substitute a false one.
~By Francis Wright ~
If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if the simplest things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.
~By Eleanora Duse ~
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
~By Charles Sturt ~
TSA serves as the operator, administrator and regulator for the nation's transportation security. But in fact, the TSA bureaucracy does all it can to thwart any conversion to a system with more private-sector operations and strong federal oversight and standards. This agency cannot, and should not, do it all.
~By John Mica ~
Speed is often confused with insight. When I start running earlier than the others, I appear faster.
~By Johan Cruijff ~
Breasts and bottoms look boringly alike. Faces, though, can be quite different and a damn sight more interesting!
~By Lee Remick ~
Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties.
~By Benjamin Banneker ~
The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.
~By Bruno Bauer ~
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.
~By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn ~
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.
~By Elizabeth Wurtzel ~
At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.
~By Johannes Stark ~
If you never ask yourself any questions about the meaning of a passage, you cannot expect the book to give you any insight you do not already possess.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
~By Leo Rosten ~
I like being in new places and seeing new sights.
~By Tom Welling ~
When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.
~By John Lennon ~
If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
One of the many interesting and surprising experiences of the beginner in child analysis is to find in even very young children a capacity for insight which is often far greater than that of adults.
~By Melanie Klein ~
I'd think learning to play the guitar would be very confusing for sighted people.
~By Doc Watson ~
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
~By C. S. Lewis ~
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
~By Edmund Husserl ~
These vessels are out of sight, out of mind. They are exempt from minimum-wage requirements, from Coast Guard inspections, OSHA regulations and other safety laws.
~By Steve Finley ~
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.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
No one wants to know how clever you are. They don't want an insight into your mind, thrilling as it might be. They want an insight into their own.
~By Mark Haddon ~
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
When it came time to find employment, I set my sights on becoming an engineer at a home electronics manufacturer, a field that was closely related to my major at university.
~By Koichi Tanaka ~
It hardly seems worthwhile to point out the shortsightedness of those practitioners who would have us believe that the form of the poem is merely its shape.
~By Mark Strand ~
Before I was reading science fiction, I read Hemingway. Farewell to Arms was my first adult novel that said not everything ends well. It was one of those times where reading has meant a great deal to me, in terms of my development - an insight came from that book.
~By Robert Reed ~
Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows.
~By Sitting Bull ~
Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight.
~By Charles Rangel ~
What I intended to accomplish was to rouse the student body, not by means of an organization, but solely by my simple words; to urge them, not to violence, but to moral insight into the existing serious deficiencies of our political system.
~By Kurt Huber ~
There are so many scenarios here. We tried to prepare for the worst summer in 40 years and build assumptions based on that. We're preparing for the worst, but we're hoping for the best. And I've told people the end is in sight.
~By Gray Davis ~
A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
~By Xun Zi ~
I didn't know then that I would never be able to leave the sounds and smells of these sights behind me, but I was fiercely conscious of one thing-my ambition.
~By Emanuel Celler ~
The only true love is love at first sight; second sight dispels it.
~By Israel Zangwill ~
Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.
~By Catherine Zeta-Jones ~
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