Quotes with telescope

  • Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.

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  • Leigh Hunt Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like enlarging monsters with a microscope.
    Leigh Hunt
    British poet, essaywriter (1784 - 1859)
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  • Allen Tate For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Galileo wasn't put in prison because he was wrong about anything he discovered looking through his telescope; rather, he was incarcerated simply because he saw what others didn't wish to see.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Dr. Seuss I like nonsense - it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope... and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
    Dr. Seuss
    American children's author, poet, and cartoonist (1904 - 1991)
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  • Theodor S. Geisel I like nonsense - it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope...and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
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  • Josh Billings Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Victor Hugo Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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