Mikheil Saakashvili Quotes

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

No, but you can see it from here.

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects.

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.

Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

"I see nobody on the road," said Alice. "I only wish I had such eyes," the King remarked in a fretful tone. "To be able to see Nobody! And at that distance too! Why, it's as much as I can do to see real people, by this light."

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

The Kiowas reckoned their stature by the distance they could see.

I never take pictures. Skies are much larger in reminiscences and my friends are much better-looking. Photos crop reality into little squares; instead, I have very good binoculars.

Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.

I got binoculars 'cause I don't want to go that close.

Things seem more when you’re little. They seem bigger, and distances seem farther.

The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.

If you want to know how much darkness there is around you, you must sharpen your eyes, peering at the faint lights in the distance.

This is not what it is like to be you, I realized as a few of your magnificent clouds flew over the rooftop. It is just me thinking about being you. And before I headed back down the hill, I walked in a circle around your house, making an invisible line which you would have to cross before dark.

If you are not willing to see more than is visible, you won't see anything.

To see some truths you must stand outside and look in.

The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty miles at the very limits of conception. The world, you realize, is enormous in a way that only you and a small community of fellow hikers know. Planetary scale is your little secret.

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

Men and things have each their proper perspective; to judge rightly of some it is necessary to see them near, of others we can never judge rightly but at a distance.

There's a lot of things you can't see if you aren't' looking.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.