Quotes About Observation

The painter, Edouard Manet, once observed: "There are no lines in nature, only areas of color, one against another.

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

Denn die einen sind im Dunkeln Und die anderen sind im Licht. Und man sieht nur die im Lichte Die im Dunkeln sieht man nicht.

Therefore learn how to see and not to gape. To act instead of talking all day long. The world was almost won by such an ape! The nations put him where his kind belong. But don't rejoice too soon at your escape - The womb he crawled from is still going strong.

All the world says: yes we know what's written in the books but now let's see what our eyes tell us.

Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.

Tutti vedono la violenza del fiume in piena, nessuno vede la violenza degli argini che lo costringono.

I discovered our dear poet in my office, a simple clerk.

Reicher Mann und armer Mann standen da und sah'n sich an. Und der arme sagte bleich, wär ich nicht arm, wärst du nicht reich.

If we could learn to look instead of gawking, We'd see the horror in the heart of farce, If only we could act instead of talking, We wouldn't always end up on our arse. This was the thing that nearly had us mastered; Don't yet rejoice in his defeat, you men! Although the world stood up and stopped the bastard, The bitch that bore him is in heat again.

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men although he was twice married, it never occured to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths.

I sense a space around him. He has a manner of eyeing people, even if he's standing face to face, as though he sees them from a distance.

If I can't see stories in the lives of the people around me,--I just couldn't see them anywhere. If I can't see drama in humanity near me, I guess I couldn't detect it in humans far away.

How can I explain it to you, so you would understand? I've seen everything . . . and I've hardly been away from this yard. I've seen cathedrals in the snow on the Lombardy poplars. I've seen the sun set behind the Alps over there when the clouds have been piled up on the edge of the prairie. I've seen the ocean billows in the rise and the fall of the prairie grass.

1. "It is what we believe about ourselves that determines how others see us" 2. (regarding friends) "cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest" 3. "oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty

From the highest branch he watches and waits. The horned owl keeps secrets.

By thinking hard about how this artist sees, I learn more about my own seeing.

I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side — I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.

I always know I'm talking to a gardener or a photographer if at any given time, they know where the light is.

As a number of scientists have noted, research on the human brain is complicated by the fact that the brain is struggling to understand itself. This three-pound organ is perhaps the only bit of matter in the universe—at least as far as we know—that is observing itself, wondering about itself, trying to analyze itself, and attempting to gain better control of its own capabilities.

We mostly see what we have learned to expect to see.

By closing one eye, you removed binocular vision, the slight variance in images, called "binocular disparity," that occurs when we view an object with both eyes open. Binocular vision—sometimes called "depth perception"—allows us to see the world as three-dimensional. When you close one eye, the single image is two-dimensional—that is, it is flat, like a photograph, and therefore can be "copied" onto flat paper.

The key is always to see the thing-as-it-is in all its unique and marvelous complexity.