Optical Mark Sense

Famous quotes containing the words optical, mark and/or sense:

    “The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)

    “One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories.”
    —Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)

    “I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)