Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I've always been interested in plants because I'm a gardener, so I have a basic understanding of botany and things like that, but it's all self-taught.

What is hardest of all? That which seems most simple: to see with your eyes what is before your eyes.

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Insight essentially means being able to see things other people are not able to see. This is the hallmark of leadership.

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

You wish to see; listen. Hearing is a step toward Vision.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

He who is invisible sees more clearly, hears more clearly, and is better able to read the thoughts of men.

The better you look, the more you see.