A Quote by Thomas Carlyle

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Thomas Carlyle

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Far Farther Man Most Noses See Sees Than

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Thomas Carlyle
Scottish - Philosopher
December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do." (Leroy Eims)

John C. Maxwell

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.

Madame de Stael

A curiously interested observer sees a great deal, a scientifically interested observer is worthy of all honor, and anxiously interested observer sees what others do not see, but a crazy observer sees perhaps the most, his observation is more intense and more persistent, just as the senses of certain animals are sharper than those of man.

Soren Kierkegaard

The eye of the poet sees less clearly, but sees farther than the eye of the scientist.

Peter Kreeft

The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that . . . but not as far down as R and X. I think any man who makes an X-rated picture ought to be made to take his own daughter to see it.

John Wayne

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.

James Cook

"No," he says, taking us both in. "No, no, no. You've come farther than most people on this planet will in their lifetimes. You've overcome obstacles and dangers and things that should've killed you. You've outrun an army and a madman and deadly illness and seen things most people will never see. How do you think you could have possibly come this far if you didn't have hope?"

Patrick Ness

It seems enormous to me that we have the idea of eternity, of justice, of purity, of beauty, when everything that we see is so far from all that! Who has put those visions into our heads? The soul that knows so much more than what it sees; the soul that comes from far and goes far, and to whom limits make no difference!

Elisabeth of Wied

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

Joseph Conrad

Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.