Quotes About Observation

The child entered the hut. The old man followed him with his eyes, and added, as though speaking to himself: - I shall die while he sleeps. The two slumbers may be good neighbors.

Many people in Paris are quite content to look on at others, and there are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.

It is necessary that society should look at these things, because it is itself which creates them.

Curiosity is a sort of gluttony. To see is to devour.

Ne pas voir les gens, cela permet de leur supposer toutes les perfections.

It does not do to let the senses fall asleep, whether in the shade of the sacred tree or in the shadow of an army.

There is no one for spying on people's actions like those who are not concerned in them

As the place is worth seeing, nobody goes there.

At the period of his most abject misery, he had observed that young girls turned round when he passed by, and he fled or hid, with death in his soul. He thought that they were staring at him because of his old clothes, and that they were laughing at them; the fact is, that they stared at him because of his grace, and that they dreamed of him.

Marius y Cosette no se hablaban, no se saludaban, no se conocían: se veían y, como los astros en el cielo que están separados por millones de leguas, vivían de mirarse.

Blind is he who will not see!

Always and everywhere people are to be found who have seen everything.

Monseigneur Bienvenu was simply a man who took note of the exterior of mysterious questions without scrutinizing them, and without troubling his own mind with them, and who cherished in his own soul a grave respect for darkness.

En France, que de gens à longues oreilles : ânes en littérature, lièvres en politique !

One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.

As we have just observed, nothing trains children to silence like unhappiness.

Il n'y a rien de tel pour épier les actions des gens que ceux qu'elles ne regardent pas.

Nessuno è meglio adatto a spiare le azioni d'una persona, di coloro cui non riguardano.

one of those men who had become curiosities to be viewed, simply because they have lived a long time, and who are strange because they formerly resembled everybody, and now resemble nobody.

There are young men of whom it can be said that their countenances chatter. One looks at them and one knows them.

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins.

He caught glimpses of everything, but he saw nothing.

L'enfant, comme clou sur la roche que la marée haute commençait à baigner, regarda la barque s'éloigner. On eût dit qu'il comprenait. Quoi? Que comprenait-il? L'ombre.

Asemeni unui mut care ?tie un secret, natura pare uneori c? vrea s? ne spun? totul.