Top 100 Cannot Be Seen Quotes
#1. Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.
Pope Gregory I
#2. Not only does God play dice but ... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking
#3. An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
Lawrence Durrell
#5. There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but they cannot be seen - they are immaterial, but no less real, to us. It is only through the language of myth that we can speak of these truths.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#6. bruises that cannot be seen are the most painful of all
Gina Holmes
#7. For a second, my hand touched yours, but that second is gone, and cannot be seen, heard or felt ever again. This second is gone, too, the moment in which I spoke by your side. It is dead. Let it die.
Claire North
#8. The real action is interior - all the growth that cannot be seen externally and to which we tend to have little access until we have experienced it ourselves.
Wendy Lustbader
#9. The tree of life should perhaps be called the coral of life, base of branches dead; so that passages cannot be seen-this again offers contradiction to constant succession of germs in progress.
Charles Darwin
#10. Christ cannot be seen except in the spiritual life which the world does not possess. No
John Calvin
#11. The soul cannot be seen in a biological laboratory, any more than pain can be seen on an operating table.
Fulton J. Sheen
#12. Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.
Nikola Tesla
#13. God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.
Stephen Hawking
#14. System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot be seen in any of its constituent parts. This is the process called "emergence."
John L. Casti
#15. [Suffering] brings out graces that cannot be seen in a time of health. It is the treading of the grapes that brings out the sweet juices of the vine; so it is affliction that draws forth submission, weanedness from the world, and complete rest in God. Use afflictions while you have them.
Robert Murray McCheyne
#16. This is a battlefield, Faith! Women find themselves on battlefields, just as men do. We are given no weapons, and cannot be seen to fight. But fight we must, or perish.
Frances Hardinge
#17. We stand in awe before that which cannot be seen. We respect with every fiber of our being that which cannot be explained.
Tite Kubo
#18. The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.
Nelson Mandela
#19. Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.
Paracelsus
#20. Resistance cannot be seen, touched, heard, or smelled. But it can be felt.
Steven Pressfield
#21. The greatness of man cannot be seen in the hours of comfort and convenience, but rather in moments of conflict/adversity
Martin Luther King Jr.
#22. Behind the visible movement there is another movement, one which cannot be seen, which is very strong, on which the outer movement depends. If this inner movement were not so strong, the outer one would not have any action.
Jeanne De Salzmann
#23. That which exists through itself is called The Eternal. The Eternal has neither name nor shape. It is the one essence, the one primal spirit. Essence and life cannot be seen. They are contained in the light of heaven. The light of heaven cannot be seen. It is contained in the two eyes.
Bertrand Russell
#24. The real riches of yoga cannot be seen; they are felt and experienced from the inside out.
David F. Swensen
#25. The road is not certain, and the end of the journey cannot be seen.
John Speed
#27. Almost everything worth believing in cannot be seen. Love, for instance.
Adriana Mather
#28. The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.
Emanuel Swedenborg
#29. The Living: Those members, persons, and items that still appear to engage their hands into what is hot, what is rubbery, what cannot be seen or lifted
Ben Marcus
#30. Life is the path. Can the path be seen? Observe the path and you are far from it. Without observation how can one know they are on the path? The path cannot be seen, nor can it not be unseen. Perception is delusion; abstraction is nonsensical. Your path is freedom. Name it and it vanishes.
Eric S. Nylund
#32. That which cannot be seen by the eyes, nor heard by the ears, is the Self (chetan, Soul). That which can be heard by the ears, 'Television' is seen, a 'record' is heard, that is not self (chetan, Soul) . The Self (chetan, Soul) can only be seen with the divine vision (divya chakshu).
Dada Bhagwan
#33. And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience.
Adam Clarke
#35. When you find the way/ others will find you./ Passing by on the road/ they will be drawn to your door./ The way that cannot be heard/ will be echoed in your voice./ The way that cannot be seen/ will be reflected in your eyes.
Laozi
#36. A cage that cannot be seen is no less there than if the walls were made of steel.
Joelle Charbonneau
#37. The works of Mozart may be easy to read, but they are very difficult to interpret. The least speck of dust spoils them. They are clear, transparent, and joyful as a spring, and not only those muddy pools which seem deep only because the bottom cannot be seen.
Wanda Landowska
#38. The human spirit cannot be seen; neither can it be denied.
Toni Sorenson
#39. There is an icy window before every man! Faces cannot be seen clearly! Wait for the ice to melt down!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#40. Hollywood has known this for quite a while: Cable is the place to go because they truly have a supportive network and they want to do things that cannot be seen on broadcast. That stimulates the writer-producer. Cable is king.
Bryan Cranston
#41. No one's hurt is too small, no worry too removed, no blessing so elusive that it cannot be seen by the eyes in the back of the human heart.
Jerry Spinelli
#42. It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#43. If there is any secret to this life i live, this is it: the sound of what cannot be seen sings within everything that can. and there is nothing more to it than that.
Brian Andreas
#44. I put up a huge wall of denial. It was years before I was able to break through it ... accepting that your child has a disability, especially one like LD that cannot be seen or easily diagnosed, is one of the hardest things to come to terms with.
Anne Ford
#45. To preempt rejection she dresses to exaggerate her difference when the true enemy is not the world's disdain but its indifference. He is surely the next item in a dreary procession and cannot be seen for all those previous disappointments.
Colson Whitehead
#46. You must realize that what you are cannot be seen in a mirror.
What you see in a mirror is but a dim reflection of your true reality.
Seth
#47. Children are angels.
They are protected by God.
But because God cannot be seen, they feel lonely ...
... so they bid farewell to God ...
... and go to live with people.
They let go of the paradise that protected them ...
... to be loved by the ones they love.
Arina Tanemura
#48. There is a need, in every world, to believe in things that cannot be seen.
Lauren DeStefano
#49. Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.
E. O. Wilson
#51. The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.
Wei Wu Wei
#52. In another time,
What cannot be seen will define us, and we shall be prompted
To say that language is error, and all things are wronged
By representation. The self, we shall say, can never be
Seen with a disguise, and never be seen without one.
Mark Strand
#53. The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#54. Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.
Barbara De Angelis
#55. Yes, there is a Government of this changing world. The Government is not in the changing world. It is in the Realm of Permanence, and though the Realm of Permanence pervades this world of change, it cannot be seen by mortal eyes.
Harold Percival
#57. To see the moon that cannot be seen,
turn your eyes inward & look at yourself,in silence...
Jalaluddin Rumi
#58. There is nothing more real than what cannot be seen and there is nothing more certain than what cannot be heard.
Confucius
#59. Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.
James Baldwin
#60. God cannot be seen, but He can listened to and spoken to!
Martin Buber
#61. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart
Helen Keller
#62. The test of observance of Christ's teachings is our consciousness of our failure to attain an ideal perfection. The degree to which we draw near this perfection cannot be seen; all we can see is the extent of our deviation. LEO TOLSTOY The
Philip Yancey
#63. The mentality of a believer is a mentality of a person who believes in the victory already provided by God even if it cannot be seen now
Sunday Adelaja
#64. Do not think dishonestly ... Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters. Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything. Perceive those things which cannot be seen. Pay attention even to trifles. Do nothing which is of no use.
Miyamoto Musashi
#65. To achieve excellence, we must also consider and work with what is not apparent, with what cannot be seen. We must journey into the complex world of subtle energies.
Cyndi Dale
#66. Service is a promise that cannot be seen, touched, or felt through any of our external senses.
Jag Randhawa
#67. What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown. You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it. You can grow from it. You can be made stronger. You can use that strength to change your life, to change your future.
C.A. Woolf
#69. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it ... we see literature best from the midst of wild nature, or from the din of affairs, or from a high religion. The field cannot be well seen from within the field.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#70. Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist ... why would you want to?
Dave Sim
#71. These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.
Ayrton Senna
#72. And I surely cannot tell him that I'm no more good for me or for him than I ever was, that I will disappoint and confuse him, that I've been alone my whole life, and that it may really be too hard and too late, not even desirable, after such long, familiar cold, to be known, and heard, and seen.
Amy Bloom
#73. Design cannot be heard or read, it must be seen. Design is the structural link between the customers and the product. Content must be brought to the surface. And when a design is completed, it should seem natural and obvious. It should look like it is always been this way. And it should last.
Roger Black
#74. All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it
W.B.Yeats
#75. We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors without which neither can be seen or happen.
Judy Grahn
#76. The police cannot be considered simply the custodians of the legal order, but must be seen as the guardians of the social order as well. That they defend it wearing blue uniforms rather than white sheets is a matter of only minor importance.
Kristian Williams
#77. Stars may be seen from the bottom of a deep well, when they cannot be discerned from the top of a mountain. So are many things learned in adversity which the prosperous man [the man at ease] dreams not of.
Charles Spurgeon
#78. We must bring a message of solidarity, of mutual respect and, above all, of hope. Business cannot afford to be seen as the problem.
Kofi Annan
#79. I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.
Augustus De Morgan
#80. Whatever we saw in October 1941, cannot be compared to anything that we had seen prior, when our forces retreated from the Dniepr borders. Now, things like this no longer happen. Now, we can frown by ourselves.
Ivan Bagramyan
#81. In my years of global travels, I have seen a world in pain ... Without God's guidance, our response to suffering is a futile attempt to find solutions to conditions that cannot be solved.
Billy Graham
#82. Until the notion of Helmet-Assisted Life catches on with more people, you may be seen as a threat if you wear a helmet during moments of intimacy. Yet it might also be true that relaxed intimacy cannot occur unless the head is fully protected.
Ben Marcus
#84. We have seen that this great labor question cannot be solved save by assuming as a principle that private ownership must be held sacred and inviolable. The law, therefore, should favor ownership, and its policy should be to induce as many as possible of the people to become owners.
Pope Leo XIII
#85. The beginningless Consciousness is unborn, whole and, residing forever in its natural home of the Heart-cave, is without form, world or impurity. It is beyond comparison and completely unattached. It cannot be comprehended by the mind nor can it be seen or felt by the senses.
Ramana Maharshi
#86. Do not think that heroes cannot be broken! We are only more difficult to break, Hermione." The old wizard's eyes had grown sterner than she had ever seen. "When you have been exhausted for many hours, when pain and death is not a passing fear but a certainty, then it is harder to be a hero.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#87. Such is my desire only to see the best parts of my partner and vice-versa that I must confess to being able to remember each time I have seen someone I was in love with fall over. I cannot help but be disappointed by such a shocking inability to perform such a simple task as staying upright.
Jon Richardson
#88. These are the last things, she wrote. One by one they disappear and never come back. I can tell you of the ones I have seen, of the ones that are no more, but I doubt there will be time. It is all happening too fast now, and I cannot keep up.
Paul Auster
#89. We cannot always judge man for only one part of his attitude. If we did so, we would be like the Pharisees in whose eyes Jesus was seen as bad, because He did not respect their rules about the Sabbath. They closed their eyes entirely to what would have lovable in Jesus, even in their sight.
Richard Wurmbrand
#90. I want a faith that's so alive, it can be seen. I want a hope that cannot hide, even when I'm weak.
Building 429
#91. 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.
Sri Aurobindo
#92. The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words.
Juefan Huihong
#93. I have sometimes seen women, who would have been sensible enough, if they would have been content not to be called women of sense
but by aiming at what they had not, they only proved absurd
for sense cannot be counterfeited.
Horace Walpole
#94. The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#95. Love cannot thrive simply by being offered. Sooner or later it must be accepted and reciprocated. It must be seen for what it is and nourished according to its needs, or it will die.
Cameron Dokey
#96. If at times my words seem angry, you must forgive me. In my mind, there is great anger. No one who has seen the suffering of our children and the tears of our grandmothers cannot be angry. But in my heart I struggle to forgive, because the land is my teacher, and the land says to forgive.
Kent Nerburn
#97. Teleology is like a mistress to a biologist: he cannot live without her but he's unwilling to be seen with her in public.
John B. S. Haldane
#98. Entrepreneurs cannot be happy people until they have seen their visions become the new reality across all of society.
Bill Drayton
#99. We all have scars; some scars can be seen and others cannot. Every scar has a story and every story needs to be told.
Rebecca Shea
#100. There are some questions, there are some answers, the simple ones, the most important ones, that cannot be approached or even seen, until we go out looking for something else entirely.
Carrie Newcomer
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