Quotes About Observation

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Sometimes, it's best to keep your distance from the world so that you can have a better view of it.

The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.

The true purpose is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes.

Overhead, my aunt sailed, but I did not trouble with her anymore. She liked to watch lovers, and I had not been one of those for a long time. Perhaps I had never been.

It was one of my favorite things about him, how he admired the world like a jewel, turning its facets to catch the light. A

Do not listen to your enemy...look at them. It will tell you everything.

Dü?man?n? dinleme, demi?ti Odysseus bir keresinde bana. Onlara bak.Gördüklerin her ?eyi anlatacakt?r.

Ero cresciuta ai piedi di mio padre e sapevo riconoscere lo sfoggio di potere quando me lo ritrovavo davanti.

After that, I was craftier with my observation, kept my head down and my eyes ready to leap away. But he was craftier still. At least once a dinner he would turn and catch me before I could feign indifference. Those seconds, half-seconds, that the line of our gaze connected, were the only moment in my day that I felt anything at all. The sudden swoop of my sotmach, the coursing anger. I was like a fish eyeing the hook.

La estupidez del ser humano me hace gracia.

I grew to understand her expressions first, the thoughtful quiet of her eyes,

Skops, Peleus took to calling me. Owl, for my big eyes.

i do not know this man, i think. he is no one i have ever seen before.

The feelings that stirred in me at night seemed strangely distant from those serving girls with their lowered eyes and obedience. I watched a boy fumbling at a girl's dress, the dull look on her face as she poured his wine. I did not wish for such a thing.

Sometimes you want to go for a walk and you don't want to be watched. You just want to be anonymous and blend in. Especially when I travel, I feel that way, because I can't really go out and see a city the way other people can and I miss out on a lot.

It is better to be looked over than overlooked.

I can remember a time when I took Henry James's advice--'try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!'--deeply to heart. I think I was then imagining that the net effect of becoming one of those people would be one of accretion. Whereas if you truly become someone on whom nothing is lost, then loss will not be lost upon you, either.

When I say "hope," I don't mean hope for anything in particular. I guess I just mean thinking that it's worth it to keep one's eyes open.

We have not yet heard enough, if anything, about the female gaze. About the scorch of it.

Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter. A red part

This is a simple story, but it spooks me, insofar as it reminds me that the eye is simply a recorder, with or without our will. Perhaps the same could be said of the heart. But whether there is a violence at work here remains undecided.