"We hear and apprehend only what we..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.”
“Every man should stand for a force which is perfectly irresistible.”
“If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being something less than a man. The state does not commonly reward a genius any more wisely. Even the poet laureate would rather not have to celebrate the accidents of royalty. He must be bribed with a pipe of wine; and perhaps another poet is called away from his muse to gauge that very pipe.”
More on Knowledge
“I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.”
“I know not how I may seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with”
“Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.”