Voltaire Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes.

  Voltaire

  Eye, Reflection, Mirrors

• He who has heard the same thing told by 12,000 eye-witnesses has only 12,000 probabilities, which are equal to one strong probability, which is far from certain.

  Voltaire

  Strong, Eye, Math

• The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

  Voltaire

  Eye, Color, May

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.3307, Delphi Classics

• To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.

  Voltaire

  Beauty, Eye, Yellow

  "Voltaire's Alphabet of wit".

• Ask a toad what is beauty....; he will answer that it is a female with two great round eyes coming out of her little head, a large flat head, a yellow belly and a brown back.

  Voltaire

  Beauty, Eye, Two

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