Top 67 Quotes About Seers
#1. A culture's ability to understand the world and itself is critical to its survival. But today we are led into the arena of public debate by seers whose main gift is their ability to compel people to continue to watch them.
George Saunders
#2. Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it's more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change.
Thom Yorke
#3. The word unto the prophet spoken Was writ on tablets yet unbroken: The word by seers or sibyls told, In groves of oak or fanes of gold, Still floats upon the morning wind, Still whispers to the willing mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates
#5. But to explore the invisible and to hear the unheard are very different from reviving the dead: Baudelaire is therefore first among seers, the king of poets, a true God.
Arthur Rimbaud
#6. The best of seers is he who guesses well.
Euripides
#7. There is surely room for yet another schoolmaster when a score of seers advertise themselves in Boston newspapers.
James Russell Lowell
#8. You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong.
China Mieville
#9. Datum: At least one-third of ancient rulers' seers and magicians were in fact fired or killed early in their tenure because it emerged that the bulk of what they foresaw or intuited was irrelevant. Not incorrect, just irrelevant, pointless.
David Foster Wallace
#10. You can throw me across the forest but you can't open a lid? - William, Seers of Light
Jennifer DeLucy
#11. Our Heavenly Father continues to communicate with us through revelation. These revelations are communications of divine directions. They may come to us personally or through the voice of the Lord's chosen servants, the prophets, seers, and revelators.
L. Lionel Kendrick
#12. Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.
G.K. Chesterton
#13. Sound judgement, with discernment is the best of seers
Euripides
#14. Raise up prophets and seers in Thy Church who shall magnify Thy glory and through Thine almighty Spirit restore to Thy people the knowledge of the holy. Amen.
A.W. Tozer
#15. Like sheep, sidhe-seers herd by nature, until you *want* them to go somewhere. Then they're all fluffy bottoms and broken.
Karen Marie Moning
#16. Some things are better left in the shadows. - Christian, Seers of Light
Jennifer DeLucy
#17. India - The land of Vedas, the remarkable works contain not only religious ideas for a perfect life, but also facts which science has proved true. Electricity, radium, electronics, airship, all were known to the seers who founded the Vedas.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#18. The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New.
Adam Clarke
#19. We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#20. Your attempt at GQ has, tragically, ended in douche-bag. - Anna, Seers of Light
Jennifer DeLucy
#21. The strange case of Billy Biswas had at last been disposed of. It had been disposed of in the only manner that a humdrum society knows of disposing its rebels, its seers, its true lovers.
Arun Joshi
#22. When you return, the youngest of the seers, Released from fetters of ancestral pose, There will be beauty waiting down the years Revisions of the ruby and the rose.
Nathalia Crane
#23. You never leave yourself as an impression upon the world. The world always leaves its impression upon your silence. This is how we travel as seers, upon this feather-light touch.
Lujan Matus
#24. When he (man) ceased any longer to heed the words of the seers and prophets, science lovingly brought forth the radio.
Jean Giraudoux
#25. We must stop seeing our anointed men and women of God as Seers, magic workers, Herbalist and native doctors.
Sunday Adelaja
#26. Drunk am I with love and awe;
'Twas ever thus with veritable seers
Too drunk with joy to tell us what they saw.
Omar Khayyam
#27. Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finely distilled wisdom and passion of seers and poets with which the modern young mind is tempered for the world that blows it to pieces.
Tennessee Williams
#28. The prophets and seers and great men and women, past and present, were made great by what they perceived from God, not by what they were taught by men.
Wallace D. Wattles
#29. I own with reason: for, if men but knew
Some fixed end to ills, they would be strong
By some device unconquered to withstand
Religions and the menacings of seers.
Lucretius
#30. The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.
Helen Keller
#31. All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.
Mahatma Gandhi
#32. A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.
Tibor Fischer
#33. Creon: Why not? You and the whole breed of seers are mad for money.
Tiresias: And the whole race of tyrants lusts for filthy gain.
Sophocles
#34. Central bankers are not seers, not miracle workers. They are government employees.
Seth Lipsky
#35. I've tried to move [the sidhe-seers] during times of peace and quiet and had the luck of a broken mirror nailed beneath an upside-down horseshoe with a ladder nearby that a black cat just walked under.
Karen Marie Moning
#36. Abram: .. One [Sentient] often believes it best to choose the higher path over the companionship of another. But, this circumstance draws to mind a point which Seers might forget to easily.
Lily: What's that?
Abram: That Love is the higher path
Jennifer DeLucy
#37. So there's only one tactic for the state: kill the seers.
Pablo Picasso
#38. You have to know by now,' I whispered. 'I trust you more than anyone.' - Lily, Seers of Light
Jennifer DeLucy
#39. Let the dreamers and the seers keep watch. It is what we do.
Jacqueline Carey
#41. There seemed to be a purpose in everything - a winding, swaying, knotted, jumbled road that led back to the same door as many times as you needed it to. Until you remembered ... (Lily, from Seers of Light)
Jennifer DeLucy
#42. [The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness.
Swami Vivekananda
#43. The Grey Seers visited every Skaven stronghold up and down the Under-way. They give a single ultimatum - be at the annual feast of Vermintide or suffer the wrath of the Great Horned Rat.
Jeremy Vetock
#44. You are a cruel and lying species. You have not kept faith with evolution; you have not kept faith with yourselves; you have not kept faith with your own prophets and seers.
Eden Phillpotts
#45. Kiss me goodbye now. And make it impressive. I have issues with my short term memory. - Lily, Seers of Light
Jennifer DeLucy
#46. During this time he got news that a famous statue of Orpheus, enshrined in south Macedon, had started to sweat profusely. The seers, pondering the omen, decided that the new King's exploits would give the poets work.
Mary Renault
#47. You will not draft here," she said.
"I'll decide that," Gavin said.
Instead of looking irritated, she smiled. "It is as foretold."
Seers. Excellent. "Someone foretold that I'd say that?" Gavin asked.
"No, that you'd be an asshole.
Brent Weeks
#48. Foretold by ancient seers and now by scientists, we are at the unprecedented historic and evolutionary crossroad. We have the capacity to transform ourselves spiritually and our civilisation materially or de-evolve into an Orwellian nightmare
Jonathan R. Banks
#49. Love, as is told by the seers of old,
Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold,
Flutters and flies in sunlit skies,
Weaving round hearts that were one time cold.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#50. As a writer, I tend to be drawn to marginal people - writers, poet-prophets, seers, eccentrics - who embody the deeper ambivalences of their societies and bear deeper witness to their world than the famous figures we are used to celebrating, or demonizing, in our histories.
Pankaj Mishra
#51. But the time has come; the revelation has already occurred, and the guardian seers have seen the lightning strike the darkness we call reality. And now we sleep in the brief interval between the lightning and the thunder.
William Irwin Thompson
#52. Travelers are fantasists, conjurers, seers - and what they finally discover is that every round object everywhere is a crystal ball: stone, teapot, the marvelous globe of the human eye.
Cynthia Ozick
#53. Lily, look and see Narcissus's true reflection ... - Abram, Seers of Light
Jennifer DeLucy
#54. Mac: "It's not the sidhe-seers." He stopped and went very still. JZB: "Who is it?" Mac: "The MacKeltars." He was silent a long moment. Then he began to laugh, softly. JZB: "Well played, Ms. Lane." Mac: "I had a good teacher." JZB: "The best. Hop on one foot, Ms. Lane." Mac and Barrons
Karen Marie Moning
#55. Those who have most powerfully and permanently influenced their generation have been "seers"
people who have seen more and farther than others
persons of faith, for faith is vision.
J. Oswald Sanders
#56. Take time for good books; time to absorb the thoughts of poets and philosophers, seers and prophets.
Wilferd Peterson
#57. Seeing alters the thing that is seen and transforms the seer
James Elkins
#59. Too lazy to be ambitious,
I let the world take care of itself.
Ten days' worth of rice in my bag;
a bundle of twigs by the fireplace.
Why chatter about delusion and enlightenment?
Listening to the night rain on my roof,
I sit comfortably, with both legs stretched out.
Ryokan
#60. Tolstoy to Gandhi to Martin Luther King to Me and You
Brooke Bida
#61. Sweetheart, insulting the spirits won't win them over. Most astrals aren't as masochistic as I am. - William Maddox
Jennifer DeLucy
#62. Remember I'm an Empath before you lie to me. - Lily Hunt
Jennifer DeLucy
#63. I may not survive," Roderick said, resting his hand on the small of her back,"if I wait any longer to kiss you.
Margaret Mallory
#67. The Seeker himself becomes the knower. The thing to be known is already there. There is nothing to be known afresh. More-over there are no two things. There is only the seer, the knower.
Ramana Maharshi
