Greater things Quote by Henry David Thoreau

How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.

— Henry David Thoreau

“You can see things without truly understanding them.”

— Ker Dukey

“ 'All we can see is the surface. But there's so much more we can't see beneath. I bet it's as big as the…

— Augusta Li

“It is very important to carefully observe the things we see before we judge. Things aren't always as they appear.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“The size of a man’s understanding may always be justly measured by his mirth.”

— Samuel Johnson

“We only see what's close to us, but if we allow ourselves to simply feel, and not see, we can understand so much more.”

— Jolene B. Perry

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Only small men are incapable of seeing something greater than themselves”

— Christian Cameron

“The more a man looks at a thing, the less he can see it, and the more a man learns a thing, the less…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Man has tended to make himself the measure of all things. But man’s measure is too tiny to comprehend My majestic vastness. That is…

— Sarah Young

“It's the little things that count; when put together, they're greater than the whole.”

— Rolando Loredo

Many are the things that man seeing must understand. Not seeing, how shall he know what lies in the hand of time to come?

— Sophocles