Viewing Distance

Famous quotes containing the words viewing and/or distance:

“Hereditary property sophisticates the mind, and the unfortunate victims to it ... swathed from their birth, seldom exert the locomotive faculty of body or mind; and, thus viewing every thing through one medium, and that a false one, they are unable to discern in what true merit and happiness consist.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)

“One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)