Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.
- Topic: Imagination, Innovation, Perception, Vision, Visualize
- Location: Hawaii, Maui
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man’s task.
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The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.
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