Best objects & mirrors Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied”

Objects Reflection Mirrors Reflecting Wise Man Once Said

“The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.”

Objects Color Mirrors Brilliant Colour Surroundings Reflecting Polished

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“The impartiality of history is not that of the mirror, which merely reflects objects, but of the judge, who sees, listens, and decides.”

History Objects Judging Mirrors Impartiality

Author:Alphonse de Lamartine

“When we reflect on our past sentiments and affections, our thought is a faithful mirror, and copies its objects truly; but the colours which it employs are faint and dull, in comparison of those in which our original perceptions were clothed.”

Past Objects Perception Mirrors Originals Affection Faithful Colour Dull Comparison Copies Sentiments Our Thoughts Our Past

Book:An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

Source: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature

“Ours has been called a culture of narcissism. The label is apt but can be misleading. It reads colloquially as selfishness and self-absorption. But these images do not capture the anxiety behind our search for mirrors. We are insecure in our understanding of ourselves, and this insecurity breeds a new preoccupation with the question of who we are. We search for ways to see ourselves. The computer is a new mirror, the first psychological machine. Beyond its nature as an analytical engine lies its second nature as an evocative object.”

Source: The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit

“I draw people as I see them. I'm not involved in making artistic masterpieces. My, my object is to mirror people and I've always done that.”

People Done Objects Involved Draws Mirrors Artistic Masterpiece

Author:Jack Kirby

“I was stuck in traffic and I looked in the mirror and in the car behind me there was a couple having a horrible argument and right below their image it said "Objects In Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear". I just thought, man I hope so because she was pretty mad.”

Men Said Humor Funny Behinds Car Objects Couple Argument Mirrors Mad Stuck Horrible Traffic Stuck In Traffic

Author:Demetri Martin

“Here lies the sense of literary creation to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in kindly mirrors of future times. . . . To find in objects around us the fragrant tenderness that only posterity will discern . . .”

Lying Creation Objects Ordinary Mirrors Tenderness Posterity Future Time

Book:The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

Source: The Stories of Vladimir Nabokov

“In case any are puzzled by the different translations from which I draw strength and help and delight, it is like this: In studying any object with the microscope we use different lenses and turn the mirror in various ways; each change brings out some new wonder and beauty. So it is for those who are not Greek or Hebrew scholars, and who use the work of scholars to open the meaning of the exhaustible Word-the Bible is richer than any single version can fully show.”

Way Different Helping Use Shows Turns Wonder Cases Study Objects Draws Mirrors Delight Various Versions Greek Scholar Lenses Translations Hebrew Microscopes Puzzled

Author:Amy Carmichael

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