Oculatus Quotes & Sayings

There are some places which, seen for the first time, yet seem to strike a chord of recollection. "I have been here before," we think to ourselves, "and this is one of my true homes." It is no mystery for those philosophers who hold that all which we shall see, with all which we have seen and are seeing, exists already in an eternal now; that all those places are home to us which in the pattern of our life are twisting, in past, present and future, tendrils of remembrance round our heart-strings. — E.C. Bentley

One eye-witness is of more weight than ten hearsays. Those who hear, speak of shat they have heard; whose who see, know beyond mistake.
[Lat., Pluris est oculatus testis unus, quam auriti decem.
Qui audiunt, audita dicunt; qui vident, plane sciunt.] — Plautus

Theory is needed to tell you where to look. — Marcus Du Sautoy

A character is as much about what you do as what you say. — Darren Boyd

If his body and his essence remain apart,
Burn his body, but spare this, his heart. — Kurt Vonnegut

As the sky faded to night, her anger dissipated - but not in a healing way, just dulled, like forged iron sizzling in a cold pail of water. — Katherine McIntyre

It takes courage to live. It takes even more courage to wonder. But it takes the greatest courage of all to believe. — Katlyn Charlesworth

One can always bear what is right. — Eva Ibbotson