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Quotes About Observation

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.
~ Eckhart Tolle
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
~ Khalil Gibran
Now I know what the atom looks like.
~ Ernest Rutherford
The solution to your problem is to see who has it.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Quis costodiet ipsos custodies? (Who will watch the watchers?)
~ Juvenal
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
~ Sam Levenson
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.
~ Eckhart Tolle
When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don't leave until you have captured its essence.
~ Minor White
The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.
~ Marcus Aurelius
The mouse is wise, but the cat is wiser.
~ Tycho Brahe
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
~ Edward Abbey
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.
~ Publilius Syrus
I observe and remain silent.
~ Elizabeth I
Mainly we obsess on fixing or pacifying the mind. I simply ask you to observe it from a place of neutrality.
~ Mooji
My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
~ Jack Kerouac
Observe the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.
~ Gautama Buddha
Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The eyes of the Armenians speak long before the lips move and long after they cease to.
~ Arshile Gorky
All new news is old news happening to new people
~ Malcolm Muggeridge
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.
~ Alexis Carrel
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run.
~ Idries Shah, Reflections
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
~ Thomas Carlyle
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
~ Josh Billings
The old grooves must be erased in your brain, without forming new ones. You must realize yourself as the immovable, behind and beyond the movable, the silent witness of all that happens.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj