Visions Quotes (page 32)

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• vision
• had

I have had my vision. Virginia Woolf

• vision
• happy
• together

To this day the vision of the world which comes most naturally to me is one in which “we two” or “we few” (and in a sense “we happy few”) stand together against something stronger and larger. C. S. Lewis

• lies
• responsibility
• vision

The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision. George Eliot

• power
• hungry
• war

It's clearly a crisis of two things: of consciousness and conditioning. We have the technological power, the engineering skills to save our planet, to cure disease, to feed the hungry, to end war; But we lack the intellectual vision, the ability to change our minds. We must decondition ourselves from 10,000 years of bad behavior. And, it's not easy. Terence McKenna

• beauty
• beautiful eyes
• vision

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• consistency
• believe
• government

At heart, American conservatives like myself are believers in the Constitution. We believe that the principles embodied in the Constitution are enduring, and that to whatever extent we deviate from them we put our liberties at risk. Our views are consistent because we believe in absolute truths and the essential soundness, even righteousness, of the Founder's vision of government. Sean Hannity

• vision
• end
• saying

where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision? Victor Hugo

• giving
• powerful
• confidence

A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power. Brian Tracy

• vision
• world
• see

I know other worlds exist. I can see them in my peripheral vision. Joseph Gordon-Levitt

• people
• lost
• vision

Your people have lost the vision and vitality of your ancestors (73). Walter Mosley

• angel
• vision
• soul

The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn; the bird waits in the egg; and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of reality. James Allen

• vision
• power
• society

To make a contented slave,’ [Frederick] Bailey later wrote, ‘it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken his moral and mental vision, and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.’ This is why the slaveholders must control what slaves hear and see and think. This is why reading and critical thinking are dangerous, indeed subversive, in an unjust society. Carl Sagan

• vision
• manly
• winged

For the vision of one man lends not its wings to another man. Khalil Gibran

• vision
• chance
• history

The history of human knowledge has so uninterruptedly shown that to collateral, or incidental, or accidental events we are indebted for the most numerous and most valuable discoveries, that it has at length become necessary, in any prospective view of improvement, to make not only large, but the largest allowances for inventions that shall arise by chance, and quite out of the range of ordinary expectation. It is no longer philosophical to base, upon what has been, a vision of what is to be.... Edgar Allan Poe

• vision
• dream
• real life

I am surrounded by some sort of wretched specters, not by people. They torment me as can torment only senseless visions, bad dreams, dregs of delirium, the drivel of nightmares and everything that passes down here for real life. Vladimir Nabokov