Quotes About Observation

When one confesses to an act, one ceases to be an actor in it and becomes its witness, becomes a man that observes and narrates it and no longer the man that performed it.

Si yo escucho, olvido; si yo veo, recuerdo; pero si yo hago, comprendo».

el narrador es tan solo el ojo que se pasea sobre los hechos y los ordena. Su mirada es la pregunta, aquí no hay respuestas, solo la perplejidad de lo real.

Touch pain with great curiosity.

Summer heat, the first early morning of it…step out and suddenly notice this: summer arrives, has arrived, is arriving. Birds grow less than leaves although they cheep, dip, arc.

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Everything in the world is strange and marvellous to well-open eyes.

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.

Y aves y bichos y pejes se mantienen de mil modos: pero el hombre en su acomodo es curioso de oservar: es el que sabe llorar y es el que los come a todos.

Astrónomos hubo que se negaron a mirar el cielo a través del telescopio, temiendo ver desbaratados sus errores más firmes.

The Mediterraneans, who do not think clearly, do see clearly.

Upang matawag na isang dakilang kritiko, wala nang hihigit pa sa pagpapamalas ng kawalang-kasiyahan sa lahat ng bagay.

Twenty years is more than enough to know a town, and no one can convince me otherwise. San Diego had six thousand souls, and I knew all the townspeople as if I myself had given birth to them and I myself had nursed them. I knew on which foot this one limped, and which shoe was too tight for that one, who was courting which young woman.

She was attractive because she was young, because she had nice eyes, a pretty nose, and a small mouth, and because her features were harmonious and enlivened by a sweet expression; but she was not a beauty to strike the eye at first glance; she was like a flower in the fields, pale and without noticeable fragrance, which is carelessly stepped underfoot, and whose beauty can be appreciated only after a careful examination, one of those nameless flowers of almost imperceptible perfume.

Hans kone, dronning Victoria Eugenia, sa om ham: Han er munter som en latiner, høflig som en habsburger, sportslig som en engelskmann, stolt som en spanjol og like egoistisk som enhver annen mann.

Artists hold out the mirror to the bruises on the face of the world.

I notice that the artists, if that is what they are, at the tables around, have noticed my Scandinavian. Their artist girlfriends have noticed her New York fashions. And I never cease to notice her beauty, sad, as all beauty is, because it is not eternal.

writers who cast about for something new will scarcely ever be great, for great things could not have escaped the attention of earlier observers.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

But further, a man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and Observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

I shall therefore retire into the Town, if I may make use of that Phrase, and get into the Crowd again as fast as I can, in order to be alone. I can there raise what Speculations I please upon others without being observed my self, and at the same time enjoy all the Advantages of Company with all the Privileges of Solitude.

All men have eyes, Machiavelli says, but few have the gift of penetration.

The eye identifies itself not with the body it belongs to but with the object of its attention.