E H Gombrich Famous Quotes



Anyone who can handle a needle convincingly can make us see a thread which is not there.


E H Gombrich Quotations






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"Look back, and smile on perils past."
Sir Walter Scott

"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone."
Hodding Carter

You bluffed me I don't like it when people bluff me. It makes me question my perception of reality.
Andrew Schneider

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.
Lois McMaster Bujold

We always like those who admire us we do not always like those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly...I think-- Any fool can make a rule And every fool will mind it.
Henry David Thoreau

"Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods."
Socrates

Who dares to teach must never cease to learn.
John Cotton Dana

If the children already born each have only two children themselves ... in twenty-seven to thirty-five years the population of the world will double.
Robert H Bork

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them
Rose Kennedy