"Though we cannot SEE angles, we can INFER them, and this with great precision. Our sense of touch, stimulated by necessity, and developed by long training, enables us to distinguish angles far more accurately than your sense of sight, when unaided by a rule or measure of angles."

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Source : Edwin A. Abbott (2015). “Flatland”, p.21, Xist Publishing

Edwin A. Abbott

#Sight Quotes #Long Quotes #Training Quotes

“One of my correspondents has me convinced that the human race would be saved if the world became one huge nudist colony. I keep thinking how much harder it would be to carry concealed weapons.”
“Her frocks are built in Paris, but she wears them with a strong English accent.”
“If you make a decision in your life, even one as eminently logical and self-improving as "Why'd you start washing your hair every day?" and you start getting questioned hourly about it, you're going to start second-guessing yourself.”
“I think to be a successful comic, you have to be exceptionally smart and exceptionally perceptive.”
“There are days like any normal human being where I wake up and I don't feel like going to work.”
“Our Lord Himself I saw in this venerable Sacrament . . . I felt as if my chains fell, as those of St. Peter at the touch of the Divine messenger. My God, what new scenes for my soul!”
“We want the air to unite the peoples, and not to divide them.”
“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”

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