Quotes About Observation

I listened, he'll answer, and his father will realize how ardently he'd paid attention all along, how carefully he observed, how hard he tried. He will tell his father that the morning chorus sounded like something rising out of the breath it took away.

Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.

There is only one trait that marks the writer. He is always watching. It's a kind of trick of the mind and he is born with it.

Albertus Magnus, a thirteenth-century Dominican philosopher who performed experiments on plants, asserted: "Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.

experiments, some of them rather gruesome. On one occasion, he fed two prisoners the same large dinner, sent one to bed and the other on a headlong hunt, then cut them open to see which had better digested the meal. (It was the sleeper.)

You are a product of your own personal environment. What you have observed and what you have been taught affects your level of expectancy and can hinder you from receiving the miracle you need.

The writer] has to be the kind of man who turns the world upside down and says, lookit, it looks different, doesn't it?

I'm looking over a four-leaf cloverThat I overlooked before.

I glanced across the table at Nathan, whose face was a study in neutrality

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

The one who attended a matter and disliked it, is as the one who was absent; and whoever was not present in an affair yet was pleased with it, is as the one who witnessed it.

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Bir yolcu, yolda her seyi gormez, [...] Yolu her seyde gorur. Her sey bir yoldur cunku. -Moottah

Traces of him showed around the child's eyes and jaw. There was the same two-stage smile, and the same frown when answering a question. To the town women she was perfectly polite. She was called Ellen.

Book lovers are not necessarily people lovers.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war and shoots the injured.

Eternity turns you into a spectator.

Looking into reality, you see more, you see superfluous.

Spend your eyesight wisely.

A realist speaks from experience and from a worldly point of view, rather than getting too involved in heavenly affairs.

After marriage, everyone turns into great detectives.

Develop a long-term memory: return to the senses. Sight, touch, taste, hearing and smell. Use as many as you can to remember something, don't rely on just one sense.

Everything was said before science existed. We simply prove whether the facts are right or wrong. Science is another word for talking from experience.