Vittorio Alfieri Quotes

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

I love that perhaps we don't see the things that are there because we have no yardstick to see things by, to compare them.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

See into life, don't just look at it.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

It's not a big thing, but I guess it's true--big things are often just small things that are noticed.

Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.

The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion.

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

Our job is not to set things right but to see them right.

Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.