Quotes About Observation

Just because you've seen something doesn't mean you'll stop looking. There's always something you didn't see before.

Her ordinariness, and the fact that she has written so much about it, is what makes her interesting.

Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.

One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Coffee, which makes the politicians wise, And see through all things with his half-shut eyes.

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; Learn from the beasts the physic of the field; Thy arts of building from the bee receive; Learn of the mole to plow, the worm to weave; Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

Die gefährlichste aller Weltanschauungen ist die Weltanschauung der Leute, welche die Welt nicht angeschaut haben.

It is far more difficult to observe correctly than most men imagine; to behold is not necessarily to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails.

Alexander Werth

He's so busy looking inside people to find the good that he misses the knife they're holding in their hand.

A diary or journal isn't necessarily something that should be done daily so much as it is a clue to how to see the daily world around oneself differently.

For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.

Every baby's the only in my observation of mothers.

Scarlett laughed aloud without knowing it. It was a child's laughter, free and unconsidered, expressing pure joyful surprise. "Oh, look!" she said. "Oh, look!" She was so enraptured that she was unaware of Rhett's eyes watching her, instead of the horses.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

Various forms of religious madness are quite common in the United States.

He clasps the crag with crooked hands; Close to the sun in lonely lands, Ringed with the azure world, he stands. The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls; He watches from his mountain walls, And like a thunderbolt he falls.

The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.

The word LISTEN contains the same letters as the word SILENT.

Man muß die Welt sehen können und zu ihr hingehn." S.25

We all have our spectacles, but no one can tell to a shade the colour of the glass.