Magnifying Glass Quotes

42 Magnifying Glass quotes by 39 unique 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
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 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
Instead of getting an iPad, I now use my iPhone with a giant magnifying glass attached to my face. — Tony Hsieh
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
The MagiciansÂ brilliantly explores the hidden underbelly of fantasy and easy magic, taking whatâ€™s simple on the surface and turning it over to show us… — Naomi Novik
Love has a way of showing you to yourself, whether through satisfaction or humiliation. It hovers over you like a magnifying glass you cannot escape,… — Marianne Williamson
Invite the Sacred to participate in your joy in little things, as well as in your agony over the great ones. There are as many… — Alice O. Howell
Drama is drama, and it's really... if it's something small, you put a magnifying glass up to it; if it's something big, you use a… — Gore Verbinski
In play, the child is always behaving beyond his age, above his usual everyday behaviour; in play he is, as it were, a head above… — Lev S. Vygotsky
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the… — Oscar Nunez
It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames. — Harry Hill
A ship's engine far away on the water expands the summer-night horizon. Both joy and sorrow swell in the dew's magnifying glass. Without really knowing,… — Tomas Transtromer
Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious. — Craig Stone

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