Alexander Pope Quotes

The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully understand the universe, and that perhaps no human ever will. To put it all down to some omnipotent deity is a cop-out. Factor in fairy tales of an afterlife and it becomes a comforting cop-out.

I wouldn't claim to know what another person is thinking. I can imagine it, but it's my interpretation, and I try to make that clear. It's my vision of what I think their life is. I don't think there are empirical truths in that regard.

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

The connectedness of things is what the educator contemplates to the limit of his capacity. No human capacity is great enough to permit a vision of the world as simple, but if the educator does not aim at the vision no one else will, and the consequences are dire when no one does.

With our short sight we affect to take a comprehensive view of eternity. Our horizon is the universe.

(As human beings) We see everything everything in a glass, darkly. Sometimes we can peer through the glass and catch a glimpse of what is on the other side. If we were to polish the glass clean, we'd see much more. But then we would no longer see ourselves.

Perhaps the belief in God is the belief that the universe is intelligible, but not to us.

a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

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

Look wide, and even when you think you are looking wide - look wider still.

He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.

Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not

All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them.

There are only two kinds of people in this world. The realists and the dreamers. The realists know where they are going and the dreamers have already been there.

We can teach ourselves to see things the way they ARE. Only with vision can we begin to see things the way they CAN BE.

Madman! Look through my eyes if thou hast none of thine own.

How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.

Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects.

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

When I say: "I'm looking at you, I can see you", that means: "I can see you because I can't see what is behind you: I see you through the frame I am drawing. I can't see inside you". If I could see you from beneath or from behind, I would be God. I can see you because my back and my sides are blind. One can't even imagine what it would be like to see inside people.

The manager administers; the leader innovates. The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective. The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. The manager has his eye on the bottom line; the leader has his eye on the horizon. The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.