Enlarges Quotes

69 Enlarges quotes by 54 unique authors

It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up… — George Eliot
Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind. — V. S. Pritchett
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula,… — Henry Moore
Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways. — Mona Simpson
The human mind moves always forward, alters its viewpoint and enlarges its thought substance, and the effect of these changes is to render past systems… — Sri Aurobindo
We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for… — William Butler Yeats
Unemployment diminishes people. Leisure enlarges them. — Mason Cooley
Dolby stereo increases the possibility of emptiness in film sound at the same time that it enlarges the space that can be filled. It's this… — Michel Chion
Folly enlarges men's desires while it lessens their capacities. — Robert South
Humor simultaneously wounds and heals, indicts and pardons, diminishes and enlarges; it constitutes inner growth at the expense of outer gain, and those who possess… — Louis Kronenberger
Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor. — Isaac D'Israeli
The female covers her breasts, and then proceeds to redefine their shape with a brassiere. This sexual signaling device may be padded or inflatable, so… — Desmond Morris
As industrial technology advances and enlarges, and in the process assumes greater social, economic, and political force, it carries people away from where they belong… — Wendell Berry
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World. — Mary Anne Radmacher
A small compassionate act enlarges the scope of community. — Mary Anne Radmacher
The love of God uplifts and enlarges us. I can never think of myself anymore as exclusively in this body; I feel that I am… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through… — Alexander Pope
Reading not only enlarges and challenges the mind; it also engages and exercises the brain. Today's youth who sits mesmerized by a television screen is… — Richard M. Nixon
Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable. — Samuel Johnson
Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you… — David Lynch
Why, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a… — Roger Rosenblatt
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter. — Wallace Stegner
Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the… — Susan Sontag

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