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“The only problem with seeing too much is that it makes you insane.”
Phaedrus
“The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.”
Cecil B. De Mille
“The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent”
Carl Gustav Jung
“As a man is, so he sees”
William Blake
“One sees more devils than vast hell can hold”
William Shakespeare
“Seeing you sleeping peacefully on your back among your stuffed ducks, bears and basset hounds, would remind me that no matter how good the next day might be, certain moments were gone forever because we could not go backwards in time”
Joan Baez
“The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the scar”
Ernst Schroder
“Madness is confusion of levels of fact. . . . Madness is not seeing visions but confusing levels.”
William S. Burroughs
“The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.”
William Osler
“Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.”
Robert M. Pirsig