| "Art does not reproduce the visible rather, it makes visible." »Paul Klee |
| "Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen." »Robert Bresson |
| "The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all." »Ovid |
| "What I dream of is an art of balance." »Henri Matisse |
| "The politician is an acrobat he keeps his balance by doing the opposite of what he says." »Maurice Barrs |
| "The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." »Oscar Wilde |
| "So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| "Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible." »Edward Teller |
| "One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil. To think is to do." »Victor Hugo |
| "Fortunate indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use." »Peter Mere Latham |
| "I believe that uncertainty is rally my spirit's way of whispering, I'm in flux. I can't decide for you. Something is off-balance here." »Oprah Winfrey |
| "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde |
| "Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat." »Eric Hoffer |
| "A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life." »William Arthur Ward |
| "The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man." »Euripides |
| "Toleration is the greatest gift of mind, it requires that same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle." »Helen Keller |
| "It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'" »Athenus |
| "As we look deeply within, we understand our perfect balance. There is no fear of the cycle of birth, life and death. For when you stand in the present moment, you are timeless." »Rodney Yee |
| "An adventure differs from a mere feat in that it is tied to the externally unattainable. Only one end of the rope is in the hand, the other is not visible, and neither prayers, nor daring, nor reason can shake it free." »William Bolitho |
| "A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor." »Victor Hugo |
| "Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul." »Pythagorus |
| "So you are lean and mean and resourceful and you continue to walk on the edge of the precipice because over the years you have become fascinated by how close you can walk without losing your balance." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "A university anywhere can aim no higher than to be as British as possible for the sake of the undergraduates, as German as possible for the sake of the public at large-and as confused as possible for the preservation of the whole uneasy balance." »Clark Kerr |
| "When one's ill or unhappy, one needs something outside oneself to hold one up. It is a good thing, I think, when one has been knocked out of one's balance . to have some external job or duty to hang on to." »Aldous Huxley |
| "Bourgeois society is infected by monomania the monomania of accounting. For it, the only thing that has value is what can be counted in francs and centimes. It never hesitates to sacrifice human life to figures which look well on paper, such as national budgets or industrial balance sheets." »Simone Weil |
| "Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it." »George Santayana |
| "Just because the solutions of problems are not visible at any particular time does not mean that those problems will never be alleviated -- or confined to tolerable dimensions. History has a way of changing the very terms in which problems operate and of leaving them, in the end, unsolved, to be sure, yet strangely deflated of their original meaning and importance." »M. I. Abramowitz |
| "From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought." »Victor Hugo |
| "Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he rose up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight." »James Grover Thurber |
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