Quotes About Observation

One of the pleasures of being a gardener comes from the enjoyment you get looking at other people's yards.

Now I'm not dumb, but I can't understand how she walks like a woman but talks like a man..." Th Kinks

It's not in your eyes Your eyeballs won't change It's the muscles around your eyes

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

Anstaunen ist auch eine Kunst. Es gehört etwas dazu, Großes als groß zu begreifen.

Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves

Zwei Augen hat man nur und mit hundert soll man sehen

The basest person is capable of perceiving the weaknesses of the greatest, the most stupid, the errors in the thought of the most intelligent.

A landscape becomes uglier when an admirer disrupts it with the words 'how beautiful'.

Der Splitter in deinem Auge ist das beste Vergröserungsglas.

The detached observer is as much entangled as the active participant; the only advantage of the former is insight into his entanglement, and the infinitesimal freedom that lies in knowledge as such.

We have sunk to a depth in which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

One might extend La Rochefoucauld's famous maxim that neither the sun nor death can be stared at for long, by saying that no member of the modern liberal intelligentsia can stare at a social problem for very long.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment

I study the lives on a leaf: the littleSleepers, numb nudgers in cold dimensions,Beetles in caves, newts, stone-deaf fishes,Lice tethered to long limp subterranean weeds,Squirmers in bogs,And bacterial creepers.

And the new plants, still awkward in their soil,The lovely diminutives.I could watch! I could watch!I saw the separateness of all things!

Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and the telescope.

which means "other side," the other part of the city. The view from there wasn't as good as from the fort, but curious people were there, too, just looking. Strangely

television wears away the capacity to be astonished'.

the hot sickness causing him to see people

He had shrewd, on the spot judgement about human nature. Good sense with good manners and the practice of contentment made up in his view a large part of wisdom.

Tu as compté les heures, observant avec ravissement la course des aiguilles. Le temps était fictif : était-il dix heures ou vingt-deux heures, mardi ou dimanche ? Cela n'avait pas d'importance ; de nouveau tu pouvais régulariser ta vie, à midi j'ai faim, à minuit sommeil. Un rythme, quelque chose à quoi se raccrocher.

The world is continuously discontinuous. It is continuous for intuition and thinking; discontinuous for reason and observation. The human senses break it down but the unconvinced mind unites it.

you have not been / paying attention