Top 100 Cannot See Quotes

#1. The fingers and toes and beating hearts that we can see on an unborn child's ultrasound come with something that we cannot see: a soul

George W. Bush

#2. Is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Frank Herbert

#3. You cannot truly enjoy a flower until you can see her inner beauty and feel her purpose of life.

Debasish Mridha

#4. Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep."
Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"

Khalil Gibran

#5. The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love.

Jennifer Edwards

#6. If u cannot love a person whom you see,then how can you love God whom you have never seen..

Mother Teresa

#7. So while we cannot be godly without the practice of the Disciplines, we can practice the Disciplines without being godly if we see them as ends and not means.

Donald S. Whitney

#8. Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.

Anne Rice

#9. I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#10. Good doesn't always follow from good deeds, nor bad deeds result from bad, does it? Even the wise and good cannot see the end of all actions.

Donna Tartt

#11. Don't give into him at all. Deny yourself. Because then your eyes will not be clouded by a madness that you cannot control, and then you will be able to learn to see him as he is. Do you understand?

Louis De Bernieres

#12. Because I am in love with you. Because I cannot be around you for fear you will finally see what is written across my heart. Because the pain of you is one I cannot bear

Kiersten White

#13. We cannot all see the dreams in the same way.

Paulo Coelho

#14. Do we soon forget the things we cannot see?

Tori Amos

#15. As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.

Lance Secretan

#16. You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.

John Wesley Powell

#17. You cannot see the lettuce and the dressing without suspecting a salad.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#18. If your eyes are blinded with your worries, you cannot see the beauty of the sunset.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#19. It's obvious we can't ignore the problem any longer. Locally and nationally, we cannot wait to see how bad it gets. We need to act now.

Greg Nickels

#20. We have the opportunity to pour into them what they were created to be; and pullout the treasure that they cannot yet see.

Momma Moon

#21. If you cannot see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

Christina Dodd

#22. Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty.

Fethullah Gulen

#23. A will to be unkind is like a sickness. It can be healed or driven out. But to be unkind because you are thoughtless is the worst kind of blindness: difficult to cure, because you cannot see the fault even as you commit it.

Cameron Dokey

#24. A civilization that cannot see the sun and stars will be without religion. There

Liu Cixin

#25. But what I cannot settle in my mind is that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength.

Charles Dickens

#26. Who does not see that I have taken a road along which I shall go, without stopping and without effort, as long as there is ink and paper in the world? I cannot keep a record of my life by my actions; fortune places them too low. I keep it by my thoughts.

Michel De Montaigne

#27. Hal Incandenza has an almost obsessive dislike for deLint, whom he tells Mario he sometimes cannot quite believe is even real, and tries to get to the side of, to see whether deLint has a true z coordinate or is just a cutout or projection.

David Foster Wallace

#28. Faith is like radar that sees through the fog
the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.

Corrie Ten Boom

#29. Let us account for all we see by the facts we know. If there are things for which we cannot account, let us wait for light.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#30. [On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!

Isabella Bird

#31. You cannot rise about your words. A lot of people use foul, pornographic, filthy, language and you SEE, all of those words paint pictures and they reveal the internal thinking of the person on the inside. YOU cannot RISE (forward, onward upward) above your words.

Zig Ziglar

#32. People can tolerate two homosexuals they see leaving together, but the next day they're smiling, holding hands, tenderly embracing one another, then they cannot be forgiven. It is not the departure for pleasure that is unacceptable, it is waking up happy.

Michel Foucault

#33. We see in one another the things we cannot see or accept about

Iyanla Vanzant

#34. Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.

Rose Macaulay

#35. A man may be buoyed up by the efflation of his wild desires to brave any imaginable peril; but he cannot calmly see one he loves braving the same peril; simply because he cannot feel within turn that which prompts another. He sees the danger, and feels not the power that is to overcome it.

George Henry Lewes

#36. Though my eyes cannot see beyond what I can see, I can see beyond what I cannot see

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#37. If you do not let yourself be seen, you cannot see.

Vironika Tugaleva

#38. better to meet a ghoul, which one can see, than a bhole, which one cannot see.

H.P. Lovecraft

#39. I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

Katharine Whitehorn

#40. One of the greatest evils of the day among those outside of prison is their sense of futility. Young people say, What is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time; we can be responsible only for the one action of the present moment.

Dorothy Day

#41. They see I've got a head on my shoulders, and believe a thinking woman cannot be trusted.

Hannah Kent

#42. Flowers
Are in the
Ground,
Where we
Cannot see
The
Future
Wonderment

Matthew Quick

#43. Those who cannot see must rely upon what has gone before. If I do not wish to appear so foolish as to drink from an empty glass I must remember whether I have drained it or not.

Cormac McCarthy

#44. 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

#45. Developmental trauma occurs when "emotional pain cannot find a relational home in which it can be held."1 In retrospect, I can see that this was the case for

Mark Epstein

#46. Keep your faith in all things hidden. We believe in the stars when we cannot see them. We believe in the sun when it no longer shines for us. And we believe in the universal truth even when it is not shown clearly.

Hilary Thompson

#47. When we believe in lies, we cannot see the truth, so we make thousands of assumptions and we take them as truth. One of the biggest assumptions we make is that the lies we believe are the truth!

Don Miguel Ruiz

#48. You cannot see a person's heart, belief or motive unless it identifies itself with an action.

Brenda Johnson Padgitt

#49. I am hurt ... in ways you cannot see, and that I cannot explain, even to myself, but only know that they are there, and a part of me, as much as my hands and eyes and breath are a part of me.

Robin McKinley

#50. There is no point knowing your mission if you cannot see the area of need for that mission.

Archibald Marwizi

#51. To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction.

Edvard Munch

#52. It hurts to see your loved one in pain, but it hurts more to see you cannot do anything about this pain.

Namrata

#53. Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest way of taking them.

Marya Mannes

#54. It is the dirt within men's hearts that is most offensive; the filth you cannot see.

Jocelyn Murray

#55. I cannot sleep in your presence In your absence, tears prevent me you watch me my beloved on each sleepiness night and Only you see the difference

Rumi

#56. Believing in things you cannot see Even with my trembling arms I want to protect someone dear to me The place my thought that proggressed up to now struggle on to To see hopes Even in a black, confined world

Kanon Wakeshima

#57. Truth cannot be defined by the individuals who have been created because individuals are finite beings with limited knowledge and deceitful hearts (see Jeremiah 17:9).

Tony Evans

#58. Substances are like mirrors that let us see things about ourselves that we cannot quite understand.

James Elkins

#59. How could we even begin to disarm greed and envy? Perhaps by being much less greedy and envious ourselves; perhaps by resisting the temptation of letting our luxuries become needs; and perhaps by even scrutinising our needs to see if they cannot be simplified and reduced.

Ernst F. Schumacher

#60. Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry.

Swami Vivekananda

#61. You know, it's a sad and unfortunate state of affairs that you have to live in a world where eight-year-olds refuse to believe in anything that they cannot touch or measure, and anyone who happens to see a thing that is invisible to most people is immediately branded a lunatic.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#62. I always felt the world cannot fall apart as long as free men see the rainbow, feel the rain and hear the laugh of a child.

Frank Capra

#63. Do not do what you cannot continue to deliver.
For, remember, the world wants to see a continuity of delivery of
set standards ... !

Sujit Lalwani

#64. Sometimes, as in a great novel, you cannot see until you get to the end that God was leaving clues for you all along.

Lauren F. Winner

#65. I myself am opaque, for some reason. Their eyes cannot see me. Yes, that's it: The world is autistic with respect to me.

Anne Nesbet

#66. In the beginning, compassion is like the seed without which we cannot have any fruit; in the middle, compassion is like water to nourish the see we have planted; in the end, compassion is like the warmth of the sun that brings the fruit to ripening.

Gautama Buddha

#67. A study of animal communities has this advantage: they are merely what they are, for anyone to see who will and can look clearly; they cannot complicate the picture by worded idealisms, by saying one thing and being another; here the struggle is unmasked and the beauty is unmasked.

John Steinbeck

#68. We see that reason is wholly instrumental. It cannot tell us where to go; at best it can tell us how to get there. It is a
gun for hire that can be employed in the service of whatever goals we have, good or bad.

Herbert Simon

#69. Forget the statistics ... we have to do more. You cannot look these children in the eye and see how desperate is their situation without wanting to help.

Liam Neeson

#70. I'm not a plastic surgeon, and I cannot change the DNA of a person, but when I see a woman try on my clothes and she feels beautiful, I know I am doing my job.

Alber Elbaz

#71. Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Alain De Botton

#72. I seek you like the waves seek the shore. I cannot stay, and too, I cannot stay away from you. When I push against the drift, I choke! I gasp for air! I drown within my love for you. So I will ebb and I will flow and let the tide direct my course and see where it will go.

Kate McGahan

#73. Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see

Soren Kierkegaard

#74. I know General Grant better than any other person in the country can know him. It was my duty to study him, and I did so day and night, when I saw him and when I did not see him, and now I tell you what I know, he cannot govern this country.

Edwin M. Stanton

#75. The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#76. How can any one paint who cannot grade colors? How can any one write poetry who has not learnt to hear and see?

Maria Montessori

#77. A friend who won't respond to what a friend can't ask is like a looking glass in which you cannot see yourself.

Matthew Sharpe

#78. I will walk by faith, even when I cannot see.

Jeremy Camp

#79. If Nord Stream was built in Europe, I see no reason why South Stream cannot be built as well.

Ivica Dacic

#80. What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?

Frank Herbert

#81. We see now that infringement of freedom is necessary with regard to the opponents of the revolution. At a time of revolution we cannot allow freedom for the enemies of the people and of the revolution. That is a surely clear, irrefutable conclusion.

Nikolai Bukharin

#82. God is indeed a jealous God. He cannot bear to see, that we had rather not with him, but with each other play.

Emily Dickinson

#83. I cannot perfectly agree to everything he has related. However, there are many things in the commonwealth of Utopia that I rather wish, than hope, to see followed in our governments.

Thomas More

#84. You can't see the world from your window and likewise the world cannot see you as well! Go out, come nearer to the world!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#85. I've changed my ways a little, I cannot now
Run with you in the evenings along the shore,
Except in a kind of dream, and you, if you dream a moment,
You see me there.

Robinson Jeffers

#86. That which we cannot see rules us," she said. She stared into her drink. "I mean particles, electrons, electromagnetic forces. Secrets. Love. Time. Fear. DNA. What we cannot see controls our lives." She

Eric Bosse

#87. We fear that which we cannot see.

Tite Kubo

#88. The blind cannot see light,
but can feel its warmth.
The deaf cannot hear sound,
but are aware of its power.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#89. There is no such thing as immaterial matter. All spirit is matter, but is more fine or pure, and can only be discerned by purer eyes. We cannot see it, but when our bodies are purified, we shall see that it is all matter.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#90. What see you in the horizon's bruised smear
That cannot be blotted out
By your raised hand?

Steven Erikson

#91. I have just taught you the most important lesson about the power of thought,' replied Raman. 'When you want something, concentrate only on that: no one will ever hit a target they cannot see.

Paulo Coelho

#92. If the plan is to see what happens, a team is guaranteed to succeed - at seeing what happens - but won't necessarily gain validated learning - If you cannot fail, you cannot learn.

Eric Ries

#93. I do not share the general view that market forces are the basis for political liberty. Every time I see a homeless person living in a cardboard box in London, I see that person as a victim of market forces. Everytime I see a pensioner who cannot manage, I know that he is a victim of market forces

Tony Benn

#94. We cannot continue to see the Middle East in the context of 9/11. We must see it in the context of 2011.

John F. Kerry

#95. To see beauty is to learn the private language of meaning which is another's life - to recognize and relish what is. beauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy. why languish in the shadow of a standard we cannot personify, an ideal we cannot live?

CrimethInc.

#96. I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

Bill Bryson

#97. Learn to move fast and adapt or you will be eaten. The best way to avoid this fate is to assume formlessness. No predator alive can attack what it cannot see. OBSERVANCE

Robert Greene

#98. Then why?"
"Because you expect me to fail. You expect me to do wrong. To be reckless. To ruin myself."
"Why not work to prove me wrong?"
"But don't you see? I am proving you wrong. If I choose recklessness, where is the failure? If I choose it for myself, you cannot force it upon me.

Sarah MacLean

#99. Those who are rich cannot see reasons for poor becoming poorer and those who are poor cannot see reasons for rich getting richer.

Santosh Kalwar

#100. Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

Robert Jordan

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