Jonathan Swift — Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.Jonathan Swift
Attributed to Jonathan Swift
Vision is described as an art, not a gift — something practised until you notice what everyone else walks past. The scene is identical; the seeing is trained.
Learners develop this. After enough attention, you begin hearing structures in English that were once pure noise: a tense, a rhythm, a joke hiding in word order.
Words that widen the world
The ability to think about or plan the future with imagination.
Synonyms: foresight, insight, perception
Her vision found what others missed.
Unable to be seen.
Synonyms: unseen, hidden, imperceptible
The pattern was invisible until explained.
Common questions
It means true vision is a trained ability to perceive possibilities and patterns that others overlook.
An Anglo-Irish writer and satirist of the 17th–18th centuries, author of 'Gulliver's Travels'.
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