Shirley Jackson Quotes

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

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.

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

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

In opening them, he discovered that he had eyes.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

Because vision appears so effortless, we are like fish challenged to understand water.

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.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

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

But we have been taught to see before our eyes have found out a way of seeing for themselves.

It is my eyes which see, and the sight of my eyes grants beauty to the earth.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

You heard me. You ain't blind.

In stand up, you get an awareness of how you come across, but in acting there is almost a hyper-awareness on how you might be physically perceived.

O the eye's light is a noble gift of Heaven! All beings live from light, each fair created thing; the very plants turn with a joyful transport to the light.

For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.

It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.

I'm such a jerk; it had never occurred to me that when we look at a photo from the front, the eyes reproduce exactly the position and the vision of the lens; it's these things that are taken for granted and it never occurs to anyone to think about them.

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.

I open my eyes and my ears, and that’s why I work.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Seeing well transforms mere existence into the art of living.