Quotes About Observation

He had long since learned that when somehting unusual was going on, something that was part of someone else's plan and not his own, he would find out more information by waiting than by asking. Adults almost always lost their patience before Ender did.

Peter had even named it once, when he said that he could always see what other people hated most about themselves, and bully them, while Val could always see what other people liked best themselves, and flatter them.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.

MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!

Cuando veas un hombre bueno, trata de imitarle; cuando veas a uno malo, examínate a ti mismo

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness

I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

Walking among three people, I find my teacher among them. I choose that which is good in them and follow it, and that which is bad and change it.

Nothing is more visible than things hidden; Nothing is more manifest than things minute; Therefore, the superior man should be aware of his aloneness

Se regarder scrupuleusement soi-même, ne regarder que discrètement les autres.

I hear, I know. I see, I remember. I do, I understand.

I watched as she stretched over the board to flick off a fallen leaf. Underneath her thin cotton shell, I saw how fragile the bones in her back were, far too sliver-prone, far too light to support a pair of wings.

I sat there watching him examine the fish and marvelling at what we'd caught. A genuine eccentric Oxford don. They're an extinct species, too...

Do you know the only way you can tell for sure the deer are there? Mel shook his head. By the wolves, he said.

It didn't sound like a nightingale," Terence said. "Nightingales sing of summer 'in full-throated ease and pour their souls abroad in ecstasy.' This didn't sound like that. Listen.