The trained mind, alone, more discerning than our retina, sees clearly that which defies the perceptive faculties of the eye.


Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos, The Life of the Spider, Appendix (p. 386), Dodd, Mead & Co. 1917

Jean Henri Fabre Quotes

The trained mind, alone, more discerning than our retina, sees clearly that which defies the perceptive faculties of the eye.

The trained mind, alone, more discerning than our retina, sees clearly that which defies the perceptive faculties of the eye.

The trained mind, alone, more discerning than our retina, sees clearly that which defies the perceptive faculties of the eye.

The trained mind, alone, more discerning than our retina, sees clearly that which defies the perceptive faculties of the eye.