“He genuinely looked terrified. The poor man, he's actually seen the books. In England we have this one-eyed Scottish idiot.”

“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is a hallucinating idiot… for he sees what no one else does: things that, to everyone else, are not there.”

Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980) Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor of English literature, a literary critic, and a …

“In the country of the blind, who are not as unobservant as they look, the one-eyed is not king, he is spectator.”

Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) American anthropologist

“He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

“A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.”

Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.”

Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman

“No man hath seen God at any time, if we love one another God dwelleth in us. — If a man say I love God & hateth his brother he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”

Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics

“We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.”

John D. Rockefeller (1839–1937) American business magnate and philanthropist

“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”

Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic

“If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer