“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
Source: I, Robot
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Isaac Asimov303
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“Plain as the nose on a man's face.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book III, Ch. 4.
“Plain as the nose in a man's face.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Author's prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)
George Bernard Shaw Back to Methuselah
The She-Ancient, in Pt. V
Source: 1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)
Context: Art is the magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures. You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul. But we who are older use neither glass mirrors nor works of art. We have a direct sense of life. When you gain that you will put aside your mirrors and statues, your toys and your dolls.
John Green book Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Will Grayson, p. 1 (opening words)
Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010)
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1230) Persian Sufi poet
"Looking For Your Own Face" as translated by Coleman Barks in The Hand of Poetry: Five Mystic Poets of Persia
Ravi Zacharias (1946) Indian philosopher
2000s
Source: [Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message, 2002, 9780849943270, 90]
