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John Lubbock Quotes

What we see depends mainly on what we look for

John Lubbock

What we see depends mainly on what we look for

Tags: perceive, perception, see, vision, positive

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

John Lubbock

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

Tags: best, peace

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John Lubbock is the name of:

Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baronet (1744–1816)
Sir John Lubbock, 2nd Baronet (1774–1840), English banker
Sir John Lubbock, 3rd Baronet (1803–1865), English banker, barrister, mathematician and astronomer
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913), English banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist
John Lubbock, 2nd Baron Avebury (1858–1929), English aristocrat and banker
John Lubbock, 3rd Baron Avebury (1915–1971), English peer
John Lubbock (conductor) (active from 1967), founder and conductor of the Orchestra of St John's, Smith Square

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

John Lubbock

A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.

Tags: education

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

John Lubbock

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

Tags: happiness, violin, like, thing

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

John Lubbock

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

Tags: nature, time

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.

John Lubbock

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.

Tags: nature, mountain, sea, sky

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

John Lubbock

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Tags: work

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles,...

John Lubbock

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles,...

Tags: contentment, nature, reward

A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around.

John Lubbock

A cheerful friend is like a sunny day which sheds its brightness on all around.

Tags: friendship

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

John Lubbock

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

Tags: risks

A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

John Lubbock

A poor woman from Manchester on being taken to the seaside is said to have expressed her delight on seeing for the first time something of which there was enough for everybody.

Tags: sea

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.

John Lubbock

A day of worry is more exhausting than a day of work.

Tags: worry

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

John Lubbock

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Tags: beautiful, looking, heaven