#sharper

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ↗

— Eden Phillpotts

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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#full #grow #magical #our #patiently

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper. ↗

— Christine de Pisan

#just #men #sharper #softer #than

Any person, brought into the presence of this fact, stops for a few moments and remains pensive and silent; and then generally leaves, carrying with him forever a sharper, keener sense of our incessant motion through space. ↗

— Leon Foucault

#brought #carrying #fact #few #forever

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#know #me #sharper #silence #sword

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ↗

— Walter Benjamin

#art form #aversion #between #conventional #criticism

How thoroughly it is ingrained in mathematical science that every real advance goes hand in hand with the invention of sharper tools and simpler methods which, at the same time, assist in understanding earlier theories and in casting aside some more complicated developments. ↗

— David Hilbert

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Well rounded forms gives smooth sounds; sharper or angular forms give harder and harsher sounds. ↗

— Norman McLaren

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Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. ↗

— Donna Tartt

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Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life. ↗

— Charles Lamb

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