Spectacles Quotes

86 quotes by 79 authors

An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle. — Walter Bagehot
If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own… — Josh Billings
The seasons don't matter to most of us anymore except as spectacles. In my county and in many places around this part of the nation,… — Bill McKibben
I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look bigger and more… — Robert Southey
I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles. — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness. — J. Frank Dobie
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical… — James Jeans
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the sense of being… — Robin G. Collingwood
Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as… — William Hazlitt
The future of life on earth depends on our ability to take action. Many individuals are doing what they can, but real success can only… — David Attenborough
For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude… — Isaac Babel
Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In… — Pope Benedict XVI
When shall we see poets born? After a time of disasters and great misfortunes, when harrowed nations begin to breathe again. And then, shaken by… — Denis Diderot
Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest. — Thomas de Quincey
One of the stories I love is how Gutenbergâ€™s printing press set off this interesting chain reaction, where all of a sudden people across Europe… — Steven Johnson
Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of… — Rebecca Solnit
What is nobler than to tread under foot the gods of the nations, to exorcise evil spirits, to perform cures, to seek divine revelations, and… — Tertullian
Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and… — Kate Greenaway
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . . He was naturally… — John Dryden
After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to… — Michel de Montaigne

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