Marcus Tullius Cicero Quotes

But I guess you don't see the planets when you're staring at the sun. You just get blinded.

People never notice anything.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.... My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather would say we ought to go out and look at it once in a while so we don't lose our place in it.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

He who closes his eyes sees nothing, even in the full light of day.

If you start out with a little telescope observing the stars and you keep at it over the years, as I have, it's kind of a dream to one day have an observatory where you can always go and use the telescope conveniently.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.

Sometimes circumstance blinds us at first from seeing people for who they really are.

We are so distracted and focused on what's next, we can fail to see what is actually in front of us.

It's amazing what you don't see, though. Even when it's right in front of your eyes.

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

It is quite a common and vulgar thing among humans to understand, foresee, know and predict the troubles of others. But oh what a rare thing it is to predict, know, foresee and understand one's own troubles.

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have been blind... Every morning you have gone to work, but you have never been fully awake. Of course, you have seen the sun and the moon, the stars in the sky, and everything that moves, but you haven't really seen it at all. It is different for the Joker, because he was put into this world with a flaw: He sees too clearly and too much.

Anything is hard to find when you will not open your eyes

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.