17 John Lubbock Quotes

John Lubbock quotes

1. When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

2. We often hear of bad weather, but in reality no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating.

3. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the blue sky, is by no means waste of time.

4. Earth and Sky, Woods and Fields, Lakes and Rivers, the Mountain and the Sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

5. In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

1. We are all great landed proprietors, if we only knew it. What we lack is not land, but the power to enjoy it. Moreover, this great inheritance has the additional advantage that it entails no labor, requires no management. The landlord has the trouble, but the landscape belongs to everyone who has eyes to see it.

2. Many of the greatest men have owed their success to industry rather than to cleverness.

3. Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.

4. There can be no merit in believing something which you can neither explain nor understand.

5. Many savage nations worship trees, and I really think my first feeling would be one of delight and interest rather than of surprise, if some day when I am alone in the woods one of the trees were to speak to me.

6. Many a blessing has been recognized too late.

7. Art trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

8. We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

9. To render ourselves insensible to pain we must forfeit also the possibilities of happiness.

10. The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest, for he has not earned it.

11. Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

12. This is a great way to become more conscious. Your intention and motives are fundamental to the results you will receive. Set high intentions and your life will blossom.