Book Quote by Alain de Botton

“If we look through a piece of glass, irregularities and impurities may distort and discolor the impression of what we see. If we regard…

— Inge and Sten Hegeler

We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.

— Thomas Huxley

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.

— J. Frank Dobie

We always have a tendency to see those things that do not exist and to be blind to the great lessons that are right…

— Paulo Coelho

I wear glasses myself. As an affectation, as a badge of high intellect and to see with.

— Simon Munnery

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

— Joseph Epstein

When our personal inner vision is sharp and balanced, it awakens our ability to look at life with a creative and positive point of…

— Sonia Choquette

The only sense we still respect is eyesight, probably because it is so closely attached to the brain. Go into any American house at…

— Galway Kinnell

Reading is human contact, and the range of our human contacts is what makes us what we are. Just imagine you live the life…

— Victor Pelevin

“For those of us with a bookish bent, reading is a reflexive response to everything. This is how we deal with the world and…

— Diane Schoemperlen

We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are…

— Guy de Maupassant