Arthur Symons Quotes

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

Unity is vision; it must have been part of the process of learning to see.

Sight is a faculty; seeing is an art.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

What a man sees depends on what he looks at and what his previous experience has taught him to see.

I see through my eyes; the camera is just a machine to record it for me.

Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

I discover vision, not as a 'thinking about seeing,' to use Descartes expression, but as a gaze at grips with a visible world, and that is why for me there can be another's gaze.

Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

The eye sees more than the heart knows.

The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second.

We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

Sight is by much the noblest of the senses. We receive our notices from the other four, through the organs of sensation only. We hear, we feel, we smell, we taste, by touch. But sight rises infinitely higher. It is refined above matter, and equals the faculty of spirit.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

Subject is known by what she sees.