Nikola Tesla Quotes, Distance Quotes, Sight Quotes

Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence.

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When we came within sight of the sea, the waves on the horizon, caught at intervals above the rolling abyss, were like glimpses of another shore with towers and buildings.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Nature Quotes , Sight Quotes

Performing on a stool, we've got a sight to make you drool, seven virgins and a mule, keep it cool, keep it cool.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sight Quotes , Social Taboos Quotes

Through the death of Christ on the cross making atonement for sin, we get a perfect standing before God. That is justification, and it puts us, in God's sight, back in Eden before sin entered. God looks upon us and treats us as if we had never sinned.

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Tags : A. C. Dixon Quotes , Sight Quotes , Christ On The Cross Quotes

The eye obeys exactly the action of the mind.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Eye Quotes , Sight Quotes

The legislator must be in advance of his age. Across the mind of the statesman flash ever and anon the brilliant, though partial, intimations of future events.... Something which is more than fore-sight and less than prophetic knowledge marks the statesman a peculiar being among his contemporaries.

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Tags : Woodrow Wilson Quotes , Sight Quotes , Mind Quotes

I've definitely had a few moments in my life where I've seen somebody and it's blown me away at first sight, but I guess of those few scenarios, none of them have been like... I'm not married.

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Tags : Adam Young Quotes , Sight Quotes , Firsts Quotes

Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are no dreary sights; there are only dreary sight seers.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Sight Quotes , Bored Quotes

People talk vaguely about the innocence of a little child, but they take mighty good care not to let it out of their sight for twenty minutes.

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Tags : Hector Hugh Munro Quotes , Children Quotes , Sight Quotes

It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.

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The sight of blood to crowds begets the thirst of more, As the first wine-cup leads to the long revel.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Wine Quotes , Sight Quotes

This world could not have been the work of an all-loving being, but that of a devil, who had brought creatures into existence in order to delight in the sight of their sufferings.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Sight Quotes , Order Quotes

If people are highly successful in their profession they lose their senses. Sight goes. They have no time to look at pictures. Sound goes. They have no time to listen to music. Speech goes. They have no time for conversation. They lose their sense of proportion.

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Success Quotes , Sight Quotes

The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Dark Quotes , Sight Quotes

We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.

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Tags : Alan Gussow Quotes , Sight Quotes , Smell Quotes

We hate virtue when it is safe; when removed from our sight we diligently seek it. [Lat., Virtutem incolumem odimus, Sublatum ex oculis quaerimus.]

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As the geometer intently seeks to square the circle, but he cannot reach, through thought on thought, the principle he needs, so I searched that strange sight.

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Tags : Dante Alighieri Quotes , Squares Quotes , Sight Quotes

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Sight Quotes , Hands Quotes

Genius seems to consistent merely in trueness of sight.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sight Quotes , Genius Quotes

...The sage, traveling all day, Does not lose sight of his baggage. Though there are beautiful things to be seen, He remains unattached and calm.

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Tags : Laozi Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Sight Quotes