Doe Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.

— Florence Scovel Shinn

The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard…

— Anonymous

Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact…

— Francis Bacon

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never…

— Max Planck

“In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive. A living man knows himself not otherwise than as…

— Leo Tolstoy

A man only understands what is akin to something already existing in himself.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

When a man sees the one in all things, he is above mere understanding.

— Meister Eckhart

He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed

— Anonymous

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep.

— Zhuangzi

No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often…

— Arthur Helps

Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds…

— Arthur Symons

Man can only be what he sees himself to be, and only attain what he sees himself attaining.

— Florence Scovel Shinn