Henry David Thoreau Quotes

You can observe a lot by watching.

If you slow things down, you notice things you hadn't seen before.

Open your eyes and then open your eyes again.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

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've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

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.

I see too deep and too much.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

Wisdom begins at the end.

The time of wisdom cannot be measured, and for me, wisdom is the garden. There is no time in the garden.

I'm the kind of person where I always digest everything around me.

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

The price of seeing is silence.

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

Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

It's you who are telling me; opening my eyes to things I'd looked at so long that I'd ceased to see them.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.