Quotes About Observation

Armed neutrality makes it much easier to detect hypocrisy.

Intelligence is in constant process of forming, and its retention requires constant alertness in observing consequences, an open-minded will to learn, and courage in readjustment.

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

Maple thought optimistically that human beings, on their good days, weren't much dimmer than sheep. Or at least, not much dimmer than dim sheep.

Jealousy is a rather enjoyable emotion to watch.

Jealousy is a keen observer, but looks for all the wrong signs.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

We obtain better knowledge of a person during one hour's play and games than by conversing with him for a whole year

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but which is based on observed facts.

If you wish to know yourself observe how others act. If you wish to understand others look into your own heart.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

Sairmos, e falarmos, e fazermos, movimentarmo-nos, olharmos e ouvirmos e sermos vistos sujeita-nos a riscos constantes, nem sequer fecharmo-nos e ficarmos quietos e calados nos salva das suas consequências, das situações lógicas e irremediáveis, daquilo que hoje está tão iminente e, há quase um ano, ou há quatro, dez ou cem, ou inclusive ontem, era tão inesperado.

nimelt et eavesdropping, salaja pealtkuulamine, mitte ainult ei ole mõlemas linnas [Cambridge ja Oxford] laialdaselt harrastatud tegevus, vaid oli, on ja jääb parimaks (ehkki algeliseks) vajalike teadmiste kogumise mooduseks, kui ei taheta muutuda autsaideriks, kes midagi ei tea ja kel pole midagi jagada.

Pero nunca hay nadie a quien no le vea uno algo de gracia, cuando lo trata.

Atenea se dio cuenta de que todas las miradas estaban clavadas en ella; y, en el caso de los hecatonquiros, eso significaba muchos ojos.

Estar asomado a esta ventana, en cierto modo, es como estar en una trinchera y asomar la cabeza, esperando que aparezca el enemigo. Aquí, sin embargo, no hay enemigos. Ni amigos ni enemigos, sólo silencio y soledad.

Being observant of your surroundings & practicing situational awareness at all times is not being paranoid; it's being cautious.

From inside our turn-of-the-century Italianate home, I watched them standing out on the sidewalk or peering from their car windows. I always wondered what they were looking for. Did they imagine life in the old homes was like a life they dreamed of and didn't have? Did they think the traces of fading graciousness and entitlement that emanated from the aging plaster and hardwood floors endowed the current occupants with lives that were more meaningful than their own?