Magnifies Quotes
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A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things but cannot receive great ones.
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More Magnifies Quotes
A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.
max beerbohm— Ch. IX (Zuleika Dobson (1911))
Women’s genetic celebrity power magnifies men’s protector instinct. It inspires the government-as-substitute-husband. Men’s addiction to the genetic celebrity is either invisible or in the denial stage thus we either don’t see it, or when confronted, deny it.
warren farrell— p. 207. (Part IV: Where do we go from here)
Man 's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos to the unknown which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination . The humanocentric pose is impossible to me, for I cannot acquire the primitive myopia which magnifies the earth and ignores the background.
— H. P. Lovecraft, in "The Defence Remains Open!" (April 1921), published in Collected Essays, Volume 5: Philosophy edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 53
A weak mind with no common sense magnifies trifling things and cannot receive great ones.
— Lord Chesterfield, in “Thoughts for Meaningful Life” p.96
