“The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.”
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Friday
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1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitio… 1817–1862Related quotes
“The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.”
Robertson Davies as quoted in The White Bedouin (2007) by George Potter, p. 241
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“You see with your mind what others miss with their eyes.”
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Cited in: Dr Ronald Blythe (2013) The Time by the Sea: Aldeburgh 1955-1958. Chapter 5.
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“What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.”
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“See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body.”
As quoted in Living the Martial Way : A Manual for the Way a Modern Warrior Should Think (1992) by Forrest E. Morgan, p. 88.
“Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye.”
Variant translation: Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within.
Quoted in The Romantic Imagination: Literature and Art in England and Germany (1996) by Fredrick Berwick and Jürgn Klein, and in "Culture: Caspar D. Friedrich and the Wasteland" by Gjermund E. Jansen in Bits of News (3 March 2005) http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/154/42/
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Context: Close your bodily eye, so that you may see your picture first with the spiritual eye. Then bring to the light of day that which you have seen in the darkness so that it may react upon others from the outside inwards. A picture must not be invented but felt. Observe the form exactly, both the smallest and the large and do not separate the small from the large, but rather the trivial from the important.