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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics
even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Books can only reveal us to ourselves,
and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Who has fully realized that history
is not contained in thick books
but lives in our very blood?
- Carl Jung
Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection,
not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.
- Martin Luther
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience:
this is the ideal life.
- Mark Twain
Books and friends should be few but good.
- Anonymous
Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Horace Mann
Reading about nature is fine, but if a person
walks in the woods and listens carefully,
he can learn more than what is in books,
for they speak with the voice of God.
- George Washington Carver
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
Books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Be careful about reading health books.
You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
Books are the treasured wealth of the world
and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this,
but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
- Bono
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
We do not need to proselytize
either by our speech or by our writing.
We can only do so really with our lives.
Let our lives be open books for all to study.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I cannot live without books.
- Thomas Jefferson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books;
or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some books leave us free
and some books make us free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things I want to know are in books;
my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations...
The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts.
They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Winston Churchill
True justice is not a matter of courts and law books,
but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.
- Jimmy Carter
Books constitute capital.
A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years.
It is not, then, an article of mere consumption
but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men,
setting out in life, it is their only capital.
- Thomas Jefferson
We see Life through the fun-house mirrors of our point-of-view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
When I see Spirit in everything, Peace is at hand.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The invariable mark of wisdom is to
see the miraculous in the common.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our opportunity is to Soar our Spirit.
To see Light and Joy in everything.
To spread our wings and fly boldly.
To give thanks for rainbows and butterflies -
our symbols of renewal and rebirth.
To offer daily Thanksgiving - for ourselves, our family,
our friends, our community, for the whole world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
- John Lubbock
We must become the change we wish to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
When one door closes, another opens.
But often we look so long, so regretfully,
upon the closed door,
that we fail to see the one that is opened for us.
- Helen Keller
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
The traveler sees what he sees,
the tourist sees what he has come to see.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
To the people who love you,
you are beautiful already.
This is not because they're
blind to your shortcomings
but because they so clearly see your soul.
- Victoria Moran
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
- Helen Keller
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Obstacles are like wild animals.
They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can.
If they see you are afraid of them...
they are liable to spring upon you;
but if you look them squarely in the eye,
they will slink out of sight.
- Orison Swett Marden
Obstacles are those frightful things
you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
- Henry Ford
If you wish to see the truth,
then hold no opinion for or against.
- Osho
This day I see that pretty much all
my correspondences are love letters.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you can see.
- Winston Churchill
There are three classes of people:
those who see,
those who see when they are shown,
those who do not see.
- Leonardo da Vinci
The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
We shall see but a little way if
we require to understand what we see.
- Henry David Thoreau
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
Better keep yourself clean and bright;
you are the window through which
you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others,
I can see them as teachers.
- Gerald Jampolsky
If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach,
but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect,
we will immediately feel overwhelmed.
- Anthony Robbins
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
- Chinese proverb
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right.
Men will believe what they see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Everything that we see is a shadow
cast by that which we do not see.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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