Quotes About Observation

That invisibility to which I refer occurs because of a peculiar disposition of the eyes of those with whom I come in contact. A matter of the construction of their inner eyes, those eyes with which they look through their physical eyes upon reality. I am not complaining, nor am I protesting either. It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

Boy on a Train From

The last thing a fish would ever notice would be water.

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.

There is an optical illusion about every person we meet.

We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it... -Ralph Waldo Emerson

We are immensed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

I know too well how slowly we edge along sideways to every thing good & brilliant in our lives & how casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances.

Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first.

The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly. We owe many valuable observations to people who are not very acute or profound, and who say the thing without effort which we want and have long been hunting in vain.

Turn the eye upside down, by looking at the landscape through your legs, and how agreeable is the picture, though you have seen it any time these twenty years!

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry.

Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on expression. The telltale body is all tongues.

Not in nature but in man is all the beauty and worth he sees

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The field cannot be well seen from within the field.

The landscape belongs to the person who looks at it.