What did Henry David Thoreau mean by: It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see. - Henry David Thoreau Writer · USA Copy
+ It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. Feraz Zeid, May 1, 2023January 10, 2024, Henry David Thoreau, Man, Nature, Sympathy, 0 - Henry David Thoreau Writer · USA
+ Simplify, simplify. Feraz Zeid, March 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Henry David Thoreau, Simplicity, 0 - Henry David Thoreau Writer · USA
+ It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024February 18, 2024, Henry David Thoreau, Cat, Work, 0 - Henry David Thoreau Writer · USA
+ Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams. Feraz Zeid, June 12, 2023December 29, 2023, Henry David Thoreau, Dreams, Friendship, Hope, 0 - Henry David Thoreau Writer · USA
+ There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor. Feraz Zeid, November 17, 2022January 10, 2024, Henry David Thoreau, Class, Theater, 0 - Henry David Thoreau Writer · USA
+ Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024February 18, 2024, Henry David Thoreau, Errors, Science, 0 - Henry David Thoreau Writer · USA
+ Truths and roses have thorns about them. Feraz Zeid, May 12, 2023January 10, 2024, Henry David Thoreau, Thorns, Truth, 0 - Henry David Thoreau Writer · USA
+ Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. Feraz Zeid, March 30, 2023January 10, 2024, Henry David Thoreau, Book, 0 - Henry David Thoreau Writer · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France