“Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.”
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
Look And Thou Shalt Find
Grooks
Context: Foes
of what's cooking
see no worth behind it.
Those
that are looking
for nothing — will find it.
“Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.”
Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
Robert Denning (1927–2005) American interior designer
Cynthia Zarin, , "The More the Merrier — Robert Denning's Extravagance of Color and Pattern", Architectural Digest (April 2002), v. 59 #4, pp. 146-152.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
“Children find everything in nothing, men find nothing in everything.”
Giacomo Leopardi book Zibaldone
Source: Zibaldone (2013) trans. Kathleen Baldwin et al., [527] ISBN 978-0374296827
“And nothing to look backward to with pride,
And nothing to look forward to with hope.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
"The Death of the Hired Man" (1914)
1910s
Variant: And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist
You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think (2009)