Quotes About Observation

The world was noisy . As Ciro looked around, he was the only person who seemed to be listening.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.

The Astronomer AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent airs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous.

The job of the writer is to change the way the reader sees the world.

Sometimes, people can go missing right before our very eyes. Sometimes, people discover you, even though they've been looking at you the entire time. Sometimes we lose sight of ourselves when we're not paying attention.

It is these empty spaces you have to watch out for, as they flood up with feeling before you even realize what's happened.

I'd stopped waving to passengers in cars by then- I'd grown suspicious of people and all the complications of interior lives- so I sat and watched and rode and thought, and as soon as the bus doors opened, we all rolled out the doorand split apart like billiard balls.

La gente si accorge solo di quando te ne vai; se resti non se ne accorgono. E' come quando si sente davvero un ronzio continuo solo dopo che ha smesso.

But rock, of course, is many colors. The distinction is subtle, but it is not just one plain grey, that I can promise...I spent five hours one afternoon just staring at a rock trying to see into its color scheme.

Someone commented: I can observe desire and aversion in my mind, but it's hard to observe delusion. Ajahn Chah replied: You're riding on a horse and asking where the horse is?

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There may be significant things to learn about people by looking at what annoys them most.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can inhibit us from observing others; we become taken up with adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, we have to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

When Proust urges us to evaluate the world properly, he repeatedly reminds us of the value of modest scenes.

It might be a Proustian slogan: n'allez pas trop vite. And an advantage of not going by too fast is that the world has a chance of becoming more interesting in the process.

It is difficult when reading the description of certain fictional characters not at the same time to imagine the real-life acquaintances who they most closely, if often unexpectedly, resemble.

Look not just at the Roman campagna, the pageantry of Venice, and the proud expression of Charles I astride his horse, but also have a look at the bowl on the sideboard, the dead fish in your kitchen, and the crusty bread loaves in the hall.

It should not be Illiers-Combray that we visit: a genuine homage to Proust would be to look at our world through his eyes, not look at his world through our eyes.

I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.

A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.