“A monkey glances up and sees a banana, and that's as far as he looks. A visionary looks up and sees the moon.”
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Eoin Colfer 185
Irish author of children's books 1965Related quotes

As quoted in 101 People You Won't Meet in Heaven: The Twisted Achievements of the Most Brutal and Sadistic Individuals the World Has Ever Known (2007) by Michael Powell, p. 148

“The moon looks
On many brooks,
"The brook can see no moon but this."”
While gazing on the Moon's Light.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“We've gone from looking up at the moon to looking down at Instagram.”
2010s

“How many times must a man look up before he can see the sky?”
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), Blowin' in the Wind