Able Quote by Bernard of Chartres

We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach…

— Bernard of Chartres

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.

— Bernard of Chartres

It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did, not because…

— John of Salisbury

“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants. We see more things than the ancients and things more distant, but it is due…

— Anonymous

If it seems like you can see farther than most people, it is because you're standing on shoulders of giants.

— Gene Stallings

“We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not…

— Bernard De Chartres

The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

— Alfred North Whitehead

To see things for what they are is to see with the eyes of the vastness itself.

— Suzanne Segal

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

— Isaac Newton

Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables,…

— Orhan Pamuk

We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.

— Sophie Ristelhueber