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Dwarfs Quotes by Bernard of Chartres
- We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they.
- We are like dwarfs [the moderns] sitting on the shoulders of giants [the ancients]. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther…
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- The force of the advertising word and image dwarfs the power of other literature in the 20th century. — Daniel J. Boorstin
- Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
- Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. — Miguel de Cervantes
- Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small… — William Carlos Williams
- Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live… — Holmes Rolston III
- There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but… — J. B. Priestley
- In photographing dwarfs, you don't get majesty and beauty. You get dwarfs. — Susan Sontag
- We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and things that are more distant, than they did,… — John of Salisbury
- Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because - what with trolls and dwarfs and so on - speciesism was more… — Terry Pratchett
- The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems — and in most years greatly exceeds the toll… — Kofi Annan
- Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich… — J M Coetzee
- We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they. — Bernard of Chartres