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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
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
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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
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
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
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
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but 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
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
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
Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson
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
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I hear music, I fear no danger.
I am invulnerable. I see no foe.
I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
- Marcus Aurelius
Know the power of perspective.
Be a passionate observer of life.
See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The obscure we see eventually.
The completely obvious,
it seems, takes longer.
- Edward R. Murrow
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
People seem not to see that
their opinion of the world
is also a confession of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not always see what is before our face -
sometimes we see what we hope to see,
or fear we will see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We never see what we are not ready to see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You change the past when you change the way you see it.
- Alan Cohen
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
A Happy Day is a day I see all of life
with the eyes of compassion.
- Rory J. Corsiglia
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
- Thomas Carlyle
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
Small is the number of people who
see with their eyes
and think with their minds.
- Albert Einstein
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
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
See life as ugly and painful - if you choose,
or see it as beautiful and joyful.
There is no inherent meaning in life.
We give life its meaning.
It's our Choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
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
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Each one of us has our own perspective
on everything we see in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
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
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
The more I see, the less I know for sure.
- John Lennon
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