Chestnuts Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes...

— George Sand

People are accustomed to look at the heavens and to wonder what happens there. It would be better if they would look within themselves,…

— Menachem Mendel of Kotzk

Seeing is an essential pillar of learning. And yet most of us for instance never actually look up at the sky and wonder what…

— Robin Abdullah Chowdhury

Looking up at the sky helps me think:)

— Any

If you are always looking at the sky, you will never discover anything on the ground.

— Vikrant Parsai

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has…

— John Ruskin

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no…

— Wilhelm Dilthey

We ought to view ourselves with the same curiosity and openness with which we study a tree, the sky or a thought, because we…

— Henri Matisse

We used to look up at the sky and wonder at our place in the stars, now we just look down and worry about…

— Jonathan Nolan

It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our Earth is very much like what an old hen would know of…

— Charles Darwin

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on…

— Nadar

I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see.

— Yiyun Li