Quotes About Observation

The master's eye is the best fertilizer.

nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

When someone blamed Hecataeus the sophist because that, being invited to the public table, he had not spoken one word all supper-time, Archidamidas answered in his vindication 'He who knows how to speak, knows also when'.

A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.

The richness of our lives depends on what we are willing to notice and what we are willing to believe.

Seeing the transformation in Aaron made me wonder how it would feel to have someone-even a not-so-nice guy like Aaron- look at me the way he looked at Anjali.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

The goal in meditation is not to exorcise the psyche of disturbing thoughts and emotions, nor to suppress them, but to hold them in non-reactive, friendly awareness. They may not necessarily disappear from the practitioner's psyche, but through consistent observing and witnessing of them, they cease to trouble him or her.

He indeed who believes that by studying isolated histories he can acquire a fairly just view of history as a whole, is, as it seems to me, much in the case of one, who, after having looked at the dissevered limbs of an animal once alive and beautiful, fancies he has been as good as an eyewitness of the creature itself in all its action and grace.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science, but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

In Buddhism, we aren't trying to look at the physical world by itself; instead, we're looking at the mind and its relationship to the appearances of the world. We observe the mind to see what the mind itself is and how it acts in relation to our internal and external experiences of everything—from thoughts and emotions to actual things.

It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.

See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little.

Delete nothing. Move nothing. Change nothing. Learn everything.

Beware of silent dogs and still waters

How much of what we dismiss today may have been based on fragmentary observation, centuries ago, before the very existence of a scientific framework began to condition what facts we would and would not discover?

sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?

Han, memang bukan sesuatu yang baru Jalan setapak setiap orang dalam mencari tempat ditengah-tengah dunia dan masyarakatnya, untuk menjadi diri sendiri, melelahkan dan membosankan untuk diikuti. Lebih membosankan adalah mengamati yang tidak membutuhkan sesuatu jalan, menjangkarkan akar tunggang pada bumi dan tumbuh pada pohon.

Dan rangsang hidup itu ogah dibius padam begitu saja: lihatlah, bukan saja kerjamu belum selesai, yang selesai pun terlalu banyak cacat dan cela. Imajinasi saja tidak cukup. Kau harus tinggal hidup, paling tidak tiga puluh tahun lagi. Sertai dan saksikan akhir dari semua ini!

The Queen's intelligence network is a hell of a lot better than anyone's in this palace. Bar none. She knows everything. I don't know how she does it. And she sees everything.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

You look as if you're ready for bed. (to the Nigerian President, who was dressed in traditional robes)