Magnifying Quotes

68 quotes by 62 authors

Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest… — Rudolf Arnheim
Jealousy sees things always with magnifying glasses which make little things large, of dwarfs giants, of suspicions truths. — Miguel de Cervantes
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like… — Leigh Hunt
As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf… — Thomas Merton
The last and most painful irony is that the two longtime rival armies in the securitization market - the investment banks and the GSEs -… — Bethany McLean
The only line that's wrong in Shakespeare is 'holding a mirror up to nature.' You hold a magnifying glass up to nature. As an actor… — Montgomery Clift
The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available. — Theodor Adorno
Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained — Samuel Johnson
[Good managers] know that people have 'good' sides and 'bad' sides and that the secret of good management is in magnifying the former and toning… — Ha-Joon Chang
Be guided by the Spirit. I have said so many times to my Brethren that the Spirit is the most important single element in this… — Ezra Taft Benson
And young women, please understand that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming pornography to some of the men who see… — Dallin H. Oaks
Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face. — Tony Hsieh
All corporatism â€“ even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea â€“ encourages inflexibility, discourages… — Margaret Thatcher
One who hates is a man holding a magnifying-glass, and when he hates someone, he knows precisely that person's surface, from the soles of his… — Hermann Broch
Flowers construct the most charming geometries: circles like the sun, ovals, cones, curlicues and a variety of triangular eccentricities, which when viewed with the eye… — Duane Michals
The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight — Moses Mendelssohn
When we set goals, we are in command. Clearly understood goals bring our lives into focus just as a magnifying glass focuses a beam of… — Ezra Taft Benson
Affection should not be too sharp eyed, and love is not made by magnifying glasses. — Thomas Browne
Do you know, that is the root of the whole trouble - has been one of the roots at any rate - is people hearing… — John Harvey Kellogg
We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home… — Nicky Cruz

Who Wrote These Magnifying Quotes

62 authors contributed a total of 68 Magnifying Quotes, led by these top contributors: