Top 100 Cannot See Quotes
#1. For what is the gift of the poet and the artist except to see the sights which others cannot see and to hear the sounds that others cannot hear?
Ouida
#2. Seizing on a piece of business, I become tiny, eager, efficient: roiled water I cannot see into.
James Richardson
#3. This is the great adventure and the great discovery. No one can do it for us. Until we have reached the top of the mountain we cannot see in full glory the view that lies beyond; but glimpses of light illumine our path to the mountain.
Juan Mascaro
#5. We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.
Tom Brown Jr.
#6. We are all hypocrites. We cannot see ourselves or judge ourselves the way we see and judge others.
Jose Emilio Pacheco
#7. Barcelona is my life. They have brought me to where I am today. I could not leave, I don't want to leave. I know the Premier League is very good. But I cannot see myself playing in England because my heart is with Barcelona, always.
Lionel Messi
#8. As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you.
Abraham Lincoln
#9. All that I see teaches me to thank the Creator for all I cannot see.
Henrietta Mears
#10. I am undecided whether or not the Milky Way is but one of countless others all of which form an entire system. Perhaps the light from these infinitely distant galaxies is so faint that we cannot see them.
Johann Heinrich Lambert
#12. I have learned that I cannot see into a person's heart to know his spiritual condition. All I can do is tell the jagged tale of my own spiritual journey and declare that my life has been the better for having followed Christ.
Ron Hall
#13. Do not give up your dream because it is apparently not being realized, because you cannot see it coming true. Cling to your vision with all the tenacity you can muster. Keep it bright; do not let the bread-and-butter side of life cloud your ideal or dim it.
Orison Swett Marden
#14. I have forgotten much that I thought I knew, and learned again much that I had forgotten. I can see many things far off, but many things that are close at hand I cannot see. Tell
J.R.R. Tolkien
#15. You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
Madeleine L'Engle
#16. i cannot see you anymore. your smile. your legs. your heat. is lonely. the honey, grandmother said, is for your blood. it is to bring you back.
Nayyirah Waheed
#17. The proud think that their opinion alone is right. They cannot see the good points of others, as the humble do, and appreciate their opinions. That is why there is such disagreement, strife and quarrelling and even irrreconciliation in families and in other groups.
Basilea Schlink
#18. But he is a man, hence cannot see how tiresome it is to have explained at length what one has already fully understood.
Diane Setterfield
#19. By my father's own handwritten definition: "Faith is the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen. It is the certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us even though we still cannot see it ahead of us.
Amy Tan
#20. There are some moments where you're so depressed, you cannot see the way, and you're like, 'Whatever. Bite me.' I think all directors feel that way sometimes.
Catherine Hardwicke
#21. There are some sentences you cannot see yourself ever writing. 'I heartily endorse the Conservative Party' would be one. 'I look forward to Justin Bieber's new record' would be another.
John Niven
#22. In the process of trying to understand others' difficult behaviour, I've found it is very helpful to realise that no one chooses to be unhappy. If someone is unhappy, they will be so because they genuinely cannot see how to do otherwise.
Torey L. Hayden
#23. Coraline shivered. She preferred her other mother to have a location: if she were nowhere, then she could be anywhere. And, after all, it is always easier to be afraid of something you cannot see.
Neil Gaiman
#24. And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.
Cressida Cowell
#25. You cannot see faith, but you can see the footprints of the faithful. We must leave behind "faithful footprints" for others to follow.
Dennis Anderson
#26. For all that we can see from the road in China, there is a lot that we cannot see. We miss what's behind the trees, the cover-ups, the darker side of things - the ingredients that so often drive a reporting trip.
Evan Osnos
#27. I see people everywhere disagreeing, who actually agree with each-other, but cannot see that they agree.
Bryant McGill
#28. We really cannot see what equanimity there is in jerking a lacerated carp out of the water by the jaws, merely because it has no the power of making a noise; for we presume that the most philosophic of anglers would hardly delight in catching a shrieking fish.
Leigh Hunt
#29. If when she is aged you cannot see in the eyes of a woman the youth she was at eighteen, then it is not she that is old but you that are blind.
Mark Helprin
#30. In the old days we were concerned with mobs, with thousands of men running amuck in the streets. The mob has conquered completely. When the mob has grown so vast that you cannot see it, then it is everywhere.
Richard Wright
#31. You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have.
Zig Ziglar
#33. There is no amount of bad news that the markets cannot see past.
Seth Klarman
#34. Faith and fear both demand you believe in something you cannot see. You choose!
Bob Proctor
#35. Christian soldiers armed with virtue- hearts afire with blind obsession, cannot see the difference 'twixt compassion and oppression
Lucretia Mott
#36. Although I too am within Amida's grasp,
Passions obstruct my eyes and I cannot see him;
Nevertheless, great compassion is untiring and illumines me always.
Shinran Shonin
#37. Until I am ready to lose weight, I cannot see how fat I am.
Mason Cooley
#38. There is no such thing as a soldier. I see death as a private event, the destruction of the universe in the brain and in the senses of one man, and I cannot see any man's death as a contributing factor in the success or failure of a military campaign.
William, Saroyan
#39. I cannot see the lovely things with my eyes, but my mind can see them all, and so I am joyful all the day long.
Helen Keller
#40. I am a waning bird
encased in a glass sphere;
I cannot see my prison,
and my cries no one can hear.
Craig Froman
#41. Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
Adam Clarke
#42. Other people cannot see what I see whenever I look into your father's face, for behind your father's face as it is today are all those other faces which were his.
James Baldwin
#43. Faith is to believe what we cannot see, and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
Augustine Of Hippo
#44. The truth remains itself, even the human minds cannot see it.
Marieta Maglas
#45. I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.
Charles Darwin
#47. (sunglasses make the world quieter and safer, as if you are viewing things behind smoked windows fronting your skull-house: you are inside and the world is outside, and the world cannot see into you; mirror sunglasses double the armor),
William T. Vollmann
#48. Often we cannot understand what God does because we cannot see the future He sees.
Sunday Adelaja
#49. The common man cannot see things objectively because his mind is clouded by anxiety about achieving his goals. Seeing clearly means not projecting our goals into the world.
John Gray
#50. Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. There are wavelengths that people cannot see, there are sounds that people cannot hear, and maybe computers have thoughts that people cannot think.
Richard Hamming
#52. We cannot see the beauty of life with our eyes closed. Only when we cry with our eyes open can we begin to shed tears of joy.
Tehya Sky
#53. One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.
Robert Harris
#54. Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun.
Evita Peron
#56. Just because you cannot see it now, does not mean it is not there or not possible. See yourself succeeding and own that vision through all your planning and hard work.
Archibald Marwizi
#57. But I marvel when I observe these men setting themselves up as instructors of youth who cannot see that they are applying the analogy of an art with hard and fast rules to a creative process
Isocrates
#58. What does this beauty or than music mean to you? You cannot see the waves rolling up the beach or hear their roar. What do they mean to you?' In the most evident sense they mean everything. I cannot fathom or define their meaning any more than I can fathom or define love or religion or goodness.
Helen Keller
#59. If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
Calvin Coolidge
#60. You die when you can't be real, Dolly thought. When you can't see who you are and when you cannot see what it.
Timothy Findley
#61. And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will modestly discover to yourself,
that of yourself which you yet know not of.
William Shakespeare
#62. Let them look up in the sky then ... ! if they must be so blind, that cannot see the truth in broad daylight, but must have the whole world in darkness to see the conceit of the stars ...
William Gaddis
#63. By the Blessed Virgin ! Is it possible that your grace is so thickheaded and so short on brains that you cannot see that what I'm telling you is the absolute truth.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#64. You are perceptual beings with different vantage points and - it does not matter how much information is given - you cannot see beyond the vibrational limits of where you are standing. You cannot live or see or experience outside of your own individual beliefs.
Abraham Hicks
#66. Trust God where you cannot see Him. Do not try to penetrate the cloud He brings over you; rather look to the bow that is on it. The mystery is God's; the promise is yours.
John Ross Macduff
#67. there are many points in life when we cannot see what awaits us around the corner, and it is precisely at such times, when our path forward is unclear, that we must bravely keep our nerve, resolutely putting one foot before the other as we march blindly into the dark.
Richard C. Morais
#68. They were the truth, so far as I can see."
"But you cannot see very far, and what you do see you do not understand. You do not know the truth.
Shannon McDermott
#69. Your mind is the starting point of all war and all strategy. A mind that is easily overwhelmed by emotion, that is rooted in the past instead of the present, that cannot see the world with clarity and urgency, will create strategies that will always miss the mark.
Robert Greene
#70. Although I cannot see your face As you flip these poems awhile, Somewhere from some far-off place I hear you laughing
and I smile.
Shel Silverstein
#71. It is precisely because we cannot see God that we can only know that our prayer is valid by the effect it has upon our lives, by the way we treat our neighbor.
Sheila Cassidy
#72. Dearest friend, do you not see All that we perceive Only reflects and shadows forth What our eyes cannot see. Dearest friend, do you not hear In the clamor of everyday life Only the unstrung echoing fall of Jubilant harmonies. Vladimir Soloviev, Russian Gnostic and philosopher, 1892
J. Lincoln Fenn
#73. Desire is this absurdity that holds open the infinity of possibility. Ever optimistic, ever resourceful, desire tells us what it sees as it speeds ahead on its divine wings. What we cannot see, desire describes, and then it goads us to travel on until we have given birth to Joy.
Wendy Farley
#74. Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.
William Hazlitt
#75. God will make a way, where there seems to be no way. He works in ways we cannot see
Don Moen
#76. They can bite, but cannot be us,
They can come and pick up little slang but cannot see us,
You ought to be ashamed trying to fit in my adidas,
So Run like DMC like you don't know you got no heater
Andre Benjamin
#77. I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#78. The children knew that which you cannot see can be more dangerous than that which is before you.
Alice Hoffman
#79. It is the things you cannot see coming that are strong enough to kill you.
Jodi Picoult
#81. People have now a-days got a strange opinion that every thing should be taught by lectures. Now, I cannot see that lectures can do as much good as reading the books from which the lectures are taken.
Samuel Johnson
#82. O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, but let us see the resurrection beyond it(42).
Richard Baxter
#83. ...to have true faith means believing in things you cannot see just as true love sometimes means making choices you never thought you'd have to make.
J.D. Watts
#84. Because heart can see what the eyes cannot see and a mind cannot undersatand.
Rina Suryakusuma
#85. Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot see physically with his eyes ... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an exploration into unknown areas.
Arshile Gorky
#87. A volunteer is a person who can see what others cannot see; who can feel what most do not feel. Often, such gifted persons do not think of themselves as volunteers, but as citizens - citizens in the fullest sense: partners in civilization.
George H. W. Bush
#88. In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.
Jacques Barzun
#89. Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles ... Look over and above them.
John Wesley
#90. Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.
Rumi
#91. Don't forget that I cannot see myself, that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror.
Jacques Rigaut
#92. At last, she makes her choice. She turns around, drops her head, and walks toward a horizon she cannot see. After that, she does not look back anymore. She knows that if she does, she will weaken.
Khaled Hosseini
#93. Since we cannot see Christ, we cannot express our love to Him. But we do see our neighbor, and we can do for him what we would do for Christ if He were visible.
Mother Teresa
#94. Declare your jihad on thirteen enemies you cannot see - Egoism, Arrogance, Conceit, Selfishness, Greed, Lust, Intolerance, Anger, Lying, Cheating, Gossiping and Slandering. If you can master and destroy them, then will be ready to fight the enemy you can see.
Al-Ghazali
#95. Though a man hath the best eyes in the world, he cannot see any way but that which he turns them.
Joseph Butler
#96. Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you cannot see.
Vanessa L. Williams
#97. We cannot see the best things in life, we can only feel them. A poet tries to describe those indescribable feelings in a language of emotions and inner perceptions.
Debasish Mridha
#98. Do you know what vengence is, Tim? It is a dark mirror in which we cannot see ourselves.
Patrick O'Leary
#99. You cannot see what you don't look for, and you cannot look for what you don't believe in.
Darren Hardy
#100. She met my gaze and the light dazzled, but I wouldn't look away. Your choices are keys to doors I cannot see beyond.
Mark Lawrence
