"A man sees only what concerns him......." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
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!
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“A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.”
“A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.”
“Two thousand summers have imparted to the monuments of Grecian literature, as to her marbles, only a maturer golden and autumnal tint, for they have carried their own serene and celestial atmosphere into all lands to protect them against the corrosion of time.”
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“Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know — that is the characteristic of one who knows.”
“Not-knowing is true knowledge.Presuming to know is a disease.First realize that you are sick;then you can move toward health.”
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”