Quote by Robertson Davies
The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Rober

The eyes see only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. – Robertson Davies

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Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard. – Robertson Davies

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The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. – Robertson Davies

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Do not suppose, however, that I intend to urge a diet of classics on anybody. I have seen such diets at work. I have known people who have actually read all, or almost all, the guaranteed Hundred Best Books. God save us from reading nothing but the best. – Robertson Davies

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Do everything as in the eye of another. – Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

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What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye. – Horace

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He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. – Charles Dickens

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The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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