Henry David Thoreau Quotes

An object is frequently not seen, from not knowing how to see it, rather than from any defect of the organ of vision.

To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.

When you're sent something and read it, either you can see it while you read it, or you can't.

To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

Subject is known by what she sees.

Seeing is a neglected enterprise.

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Once I started to look i finally began to see.

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

There is a difference between listening and hearing, just as there is a difference between seeing and knowing.

A man sees only what concerns him.... How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind to attend to different departments of knowledge! How differently the poet and the naturalist look at objects!

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

One looks, looks long, and the world comes in.

The more you look, the more you see.

The more you look, the more you will see.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

To see is to think, and to think is to see.

You see, but you do not observe.