Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

We are all visionaries, and what we see is our soul in things.

The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Vision is more than looking.

At the heart of art is learning to see

Imagination is a very high sort of seeing, which does not come by study, but by the intellect being where and what it sees, by sharing the path, or circuits of things through forms, and so making them translucid to others.

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

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

Imagination is the eye of the soul.

It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

I think that the greatest gift God ever gave man is not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes, but vision is a function of the heart.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

It is popular to believe that in order to see clearly one must believe nothing. This may work well enough if you are observing cells under a microscope. It will not work if you are writing fiction. For the fiction writer, to believe nothing is to see nothing.

Vipassana: looking into something with clarity and precision, seeing each component as distinct, piercing all the way through so as to perceive the most fundamental reality of that thing.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and tell what it saw in a plain way. Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands can think for one who can see. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion, all in one.

The thing that inspires me most is reading and just observing the people around me. I think those are the two things that make me want to write.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window.