Visible Quotes

821 Visible quotes by 629 unique authors

I see little alteration at Lyons since I formerly passed through it. Its manufactories are, nevertheless, flourishing, though less improvement than could be expected is… — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words… — Learned Hand
How can the Church be received as a trustworthy guide in the invisible, which falls into so many errors in the visible? — John William Draper
People have always wanted to be recognized, and that's human nature. But people used to want to be recognized for their accomplishments, and now they… — Diablo Cody
In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol… — Thomas Carlyle
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it. — Andre Malraux
The true idea of a church has not yet been shown the world, a visible Church, I mean, unless it was in the very earliest… — Lucy Larcom
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least… — Blaise Pascal
There would be too great darkness, if truth had not visible signs. — Blaise Pascal
Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster. — Bruce Catton
One of the most visible effects of a child's presence in the household is to turn the worthy parents into complete idiots when, without him,… — Georges Courteline
In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man… — Thor Heyerdahl
Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his… — William Saroyan
We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and… — Lewis Thomas
The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be… — Alfred de Vigny
Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a hint, and in its best moments a visible beginning. — Josiah Royce
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects. — Gustave Courbet
At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite,… — Mohammed Dib
No one has ever seen the self. It has no visible shape, nor does it occupy measurable space. It is an abstraction, like other abstractions… — Irving Howe
Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small. — Keith Devlin
Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it. — Simon Newcomb
As a chamber hung round about with looking-glasses represents the face upon every turn, thus all the world doth the mercy and the bounty of… — Anthony Burgess
When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two points is conceived… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Prohibiting a visible religious sign, which isn't a manifestation of militancy, would look like a fight against religions. — Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Wars tend to be very public things, they are visible. There are correspondents traveling with the troops and you get daily dispatches. — Ron Suskind

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