Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. 100

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 29:18.

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision seesthings as theyare, not as they ought to be.

-Bierce, Ambrose Gwinett
  The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

   It is not the constant thought of their sins, but the vision of the holiness of God that makes the saints aware of their own sinfulness.

-Sourozh
  Living Prayer.

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision.

-Blunden, Edmund Charles
  'Leigh Hunt'.

A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Kubla Khan'.

He cried inawhisperat some image, at some visionöhe cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: 'The horror! The horror!'

-Korzeniowski
  Kurtz's final words. Heart of Darkness, pt.3 (first published in Blackwood's Magazine, collected in Youth:  A Narrative, and Two Other Stories,1902).

It hasnovision, noforesight, nosight at all.If itcanbe said to play the role of watchmaker in nature, it is the blind watchmaker. See Paley 635:16.

-Dawkins, Richard
  Of natural selection. The Blind Watchmaker, ch.1.

The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme, The young men's vision and the old men's dream! See Bible106:5.

-Dryden,John
Absalom and  Achitophel, pt.1, l.238^9.

   If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

-Eliot, George pseudonym of  MaryAnn Evans
^2  Middlemarch, bk.2, ch.20.

Poetryötriestotell you about a vision intheunvisionary language of farm, city and love.

-Engle, Paul Hamilton
  In Life, 28 May.

Boy, I got vision. The rest of the world wears bifocals.

-Goldman,William
   Anachronistic line delivered by Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

I am for encouraging the progress of science in all its branches; and notfor†awing thehumanmind bystories of raw-head and bloody bones to a distrust of its own vision and to repose implicitly on that of others.

-Jefferson,Thomas
  Letter, 26  Jan.

The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist is to remain true to himself† In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
   At the dedication of  Amherst College Robert Frost Library, 25 Oct.

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

-Kissinger, HenryAlfred
  Years of Upheaval.

Now mancannot live without somevisionof himself.But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

-Lawrence, D(avid) H(erbert)
  'The Risen Lord'.

I thought that the best thing to do was to settle up these littlelocal difficulties, and thenturntothewider visionof the Commonwealth.

-Stockton
  On departing for a Commonwealth conference, after sacking several members of his Cabinet in his Night of the Long Knives,  Jan.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.

-Mailer, Norman Kingsley
  The Presidential Papers, preface.

Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly† Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

-Miller, Henry Valentine
  The World of Sex.

Science provides a vision of reality seen from the perspective of reason, a perspective that sees the vast order of the universe, living and non-living matter, as a material system governed by rules that can be known by the human mind.It is a powerful vision, formal and austere but strangely silent about many of the questions that deeplyconcernus. Scienceshowsuswhat existsbut not what to do about it.

-Pagels, Heinz R(udolf)
  The Dreams of Reason. US writer, Professor of Humanities  at the University of the Arts, Philadelphia.  Her  works  include  Sexual  Personae  (1990)  and Vamps andTramps (1994).

I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and missiles lie at the bottom of the ocean like the bones of dinosaurs buried under the shale of eras.

-Randall, Dudley
  Cities Burning,'Roses and Revolutions'.