Quotes About Observation

If I skip about, it's with my eyes fixed on your flesh and bones.

True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, The trouble with this country is...

Don't worry, look out the window and enjoy the view.

You might not know the type of a tree you are dealing with, but once its fruit appears, you can't be ignorant anymore.

Never let your eyes and your mind to be in the same place.

Never look at nature for the best view only, but also for advice.

Not everything is meant for us, observe, accept then free your mind.

What we stationed in our minds, our eyes behold.

Elementary My dear Watson

You see, but you do not observe.

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Si monumentum requiris circumspice [If you would see the man's monument, look around].

If a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

Plato by a goodly similitude declareth, why wise men refrain to meddle in the commonwealth. For when they see the people swarm into the streets, and daily wet to the skin with rain, and yet cannot persuade them to go out of the rain, they do keep themselves within their houses, seeing they cannot remedy the folly of the people.

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

He led his regiment from behind—He found it less exciting.

On a tree by a river a little tomtitSang "Willow, titwillow, titwillow!"And I said to him, "Dicky-bird, why do you sitSinging 'Willow, titwillow, titwillow!'"Is it weakness of intellect, birdie?" I cried,"Or a rather tough worm in your little inside?"With a shake of his poor little head he replied,"Oh, willow, titwillow, titwillow!"

The world has joked incessantly for over fifty centuries.And every joke that's possible has long ago been made.

the spectator is the true vanishing point

The best works of art are never innocuous: they alter the viewer's perceptual predictions. It is only when the patterns of our vision are disrupted that we truly pay attention and must ask ourselves what we are looking at.

I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.

Seeing is flux," he said. I mentioned the hidden narratives in his work, and he said that for him stories were like blood running through a body - paths of life. It was a revealing metaphor, and I never forgot it.