Books Quote by Harriet Martineau Download Open image “I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are.” — Harriet Martineau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Seeing Spectacles Traveler
Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without… — John Locke Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them... — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images. — Guy Debord Copy Share Image
It's only possible to see people when one is able to see the world as others see it. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
“Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on very deep… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at… — Giorgio Morandi Copy Share Image
There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
School is no place of education for any children whatever till their minds are well put in action. This is the work which has… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Authorship has never been with me a matter of choice. I have not done it for amusement, or for money, or for fame, or… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
it is the worst humiliation and grievance of the suffering, that they cause suffering. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
The instruction furnished is not good enough for the youth of such a country ... There is not even any systematic instruction given on… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
[I] wish that the land-tax went a little more according to situation than it does. 'Tis really ridiculous, how one has to pay five… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument. — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
It is hard to tell which is worse; the wide diffusion of things that are not true, or the suppression of things that are… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image