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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all.
What is happening? What do you feel?
What do you see? What do you hear?
- Jon Kabat-Zinn
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Being wakeful in each and every moment of your life is meditation.
The simplest definition of meditation is:
when seeing, just see; when hearing, just hear.
- Josh Baran
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret:
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Be an Observer of Life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not say, "It is morning,"
and dismiss it with a name of yesterday.
See it for the first time
as a newborn child that has no name.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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