Quote by John Lubbock
What we see depends mainly on what we look for. - John Lubbock

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. – John Lubbock

Other quotes by John Lubbock

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summers day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. – John Lubbock

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Nature
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The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. – John Lubbock

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Learning
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Distance has the same effect on the mind as on the eye. – Samuel Johnson

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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. – Andre Gide

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The shadows: some hide, others reveal. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The violence we do to ourselves in order to remain faithful to the one we love is hardly better than an act of infidelity. – François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims

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Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. – Henry Louis Gates

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Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers. – Aldo Leopold

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