“Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion.”
Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist
Source: The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation
“The first-beginnings of things cannot be seen by the eyes.”
Book I, line 268 (tr. Munro)
De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
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“The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen).”
Wei Wu Wei (1895–1986) writer
All Else Is Bondage : Non-Volitional Living (1964)
Context: The seeing of Truth cannot be dualistic (a 'thing' seen). It cannot be seen by a see-er, or via a see-er. There can only be a seeing which itself is Truth.
“A systems approach begins when first you see the world through the eyes of another.”
C. West Churchman (1913–2004) American philosopher and systems scientist
Source: 1960s - 1970s, The Systems Approach (1968), p. 231; cited in Michael C. Jackson (2003) Systems Thinking: Creative Holism for Managers. p. 139
“I spy,' said the first mate, 'with my little eye, something beginning with W.”
Tom Holt book Flying Dutch
Flying Dutch (1991)
“I'm the best damn thing that your eyes have ever seen.”
Avril Lavigne (1984) Canadian singer-songwriter and actress
"The Best Damn Thing" on The Best Damn Thing (2007)
“The things I haven't seen with my own eyes are for me unknown.”
Eugène Fromentin (1820–1876) French painter
Quote of Fromentin, as cited by Sarah Anderson in Between Sea and Sahara: An Orientalist Adventure, Eugène Fromentin, (1859) - in 'Preface'; transl. Blake Robinson; publisher I.B. Tauris 2004, p. 21
“I give the degrees of things seen by the eye as the musician does of the sounds heard by the ear.”
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), XXIX Precepts of the Painter