#glimpse

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough. ↗

— Patricia MacLachlan

#poetry #words #love

I love watching people, and that's what I do; just go for a walk at about 4 o'clock, and go down a busy street, where you see people coming out of school and you get a glimpse of their lives, what they're talking about. ↗

— Andrea Corr

#busy #clock #coming #down #get

No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. ↗

— William Osler

#best #constituted #content #even #fragments

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#bench #bend #breath #catching #climbing

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#before #beings #chance #discovering #ever