Quotes About Observation

I knew Michael had to be right about the argument that would come later because Mom didn't say anything about us being gone or even ask where we'd been. In the kitchen, Dad had the extra cheerfulness he got with us when Mom was angry at him. He let us each drop a lobster in the boiling water. He had to hold Alec so he'd be high enough not to get his hand splashed. Their black antennae whipped back and forth against the sides of the pot before disappearing.

Old women look all innocent and goody-two-shoes, but then they level some all-knowing eyes on your ass.

we do not need sight to see what you have become.

And don't forget, citizens: the ban on stargazing is still in effect.

Developments can happen right in front of you like that, you don't even see them.

Watch me like a vulture watches a fat mammal that is limping across the floor of a rocky canyon with its tongue out even though I'm your friend who you would never eat.

All it took was the officer's own silence and weight.

We have no room for the mystical in science

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

It's strange how so much life can be lived without speaking

Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.

A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.

There are certain truths which stand out so openly on the roadsides of life, as it were, that every passer-by may see them. Yet, because of their obviousness, the general run of people disregard such truths or at least they do not make them the object of any concious knowledge. People are so bliend to some of the simplest facts in everyday life that they are highly surprised when somebody calls attention to what everybody ought to know.

Those who have no understanding of the political world around them have no right to criticise or complain. On

Now for the first time I learned to know men and I learned to distinguish between empty appearances or brutal manners and the real inner nature of the people who outwardly appeared thus.

In scrutinizing the past, we must be careful not to be overly impressed by external results that readily strike the eye, while ignoring the less visible causes of these results.

As in everything, nature is the best instructor.

I am less desirous to explain phenomena than to establish their existence.

According to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, "She was duller than himself, and consequently did not find out that he was so.

I felt as if I were watching myself from above, unable to comprehend the happiness of the people around me.

Blink, and you'll miss your treasure. Blink again, and you'll realize that the truth you thought was completely hidden, has materialized some ungainly part of it revealed under new conditions.

What we see, we see and seeing is changing