Quotes About Observation

Put cream and sugar on a fly, and it tastes very much like a black raspberry.

I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretched in never-ending line Along the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance...

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

An identity long ago observed, or, I may say, never not observed, as if the gardener among his vines is in the presence of his ancestors, or shall I say, the orchardist is a pear raised to the highest power.

Curiosity had twins — one was Invention and the other was Stick Yer Nose Into Things.

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that my art is not above the ordinary.

Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day.

I have seen Tasmanian devils battle over a carcass. I have seen lionesses crowding a kill, dingoes on the trail of a feral piglet, and adult croc thrashing its prey to pieces. But never, in all the animal world, have I witnessed anything to match the casual cruelty of the human being.

He had opened up for me the world of the real, of which I had known practically nothing and from which I had always shrunk. I had learned to look more closely at life as it was lived, to recognize that there were such things as facts in the world, to emerge from the realm of mind and idea and to place certain values on the concrete and objective phases of existence.

The metaphysician reasons deductively out of his own subjectivity. The scientist reasons inductively from the facts of experience.

Sacredam! he cried, when his eyes lit upon Buck. Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch?

Dat one dam bully dog! Eh? How moch?

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investigate. A whiff of warm air ascended to his nostrils, and there

Amos, que não percebia nada de química, observava-o com tranquila curiosidade. Mas Jees Uck, com uma fé profunda na sabedoria dos brancos e particularmente na sabedoria de Neil Bonner, Jees Uck que não só não sabia nada como tinha noção da sua ignorância, fitava-o no rosto, mais do que nas mãos.

He was never disturbed over why a thing happened.  How it happened was sufficient for him. 

Dogs asleep in the sun often whined and barked, but they were unable to tell what they saw that made them whine and bark. He had often wondered what it was. And that was all he was, a dog asleep in the sun.

Keep a notebook. Travel with it, eat with it, sleep with it. Slap into it every stray thought that flutters up in your brain. Cheap paper is less perishable than gray matter, and lead pencil markings endure longer than memory.

I've — well, I've been down in the Pit," Joe succeeded in blurting out. "I must confess that you look like it — very much like it indeed." Mr. Bronson spoke severely, but if ever by great effort he conquered a smile, that was the time. "I presume," he went on, "that you do not refer to the abiding-place of sinners, but rather to some definite locality in San Francisco. Am I right?

You notice, by the way, that we never have a meeting with an alien. It's always an encounter .

He looked exactly the same when he was alive, only he was vertical.

Every instant a million events occur one iota past the edge of your awareness.

Weamish looked here and there to discover the source of the call. Observing Twango and Soldinck, he uttered a wild cry in which defiance seemed mingled with mirth. That is at best an ambiguous response, said Soldinck.