Quotes about Observation

Seja mais sábio do que os outros se puder, mas não avise a ninguém.

Genius, it is said, is the ability to scrutinize the obvious.

The first thing men notice about a woman is her eyes. Then, when her eyes aren't looking, they notice her breasts.

Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth.

Children learned about the adult world by participating in it in a small way, by doing a little work and making a little money—a much more effective, because pleasurable, and a much cheaper method than the present one of requiring the adult world to be learned in the abstract in school. One's

Loving the forest, you enter it to walk and watch. As you observe its manifold and comely life, it enters familiarly into imagination, and so into sympathy. By sympathy the mind in the forest is made at home.

The woods is old enough to be fairly free of undergrowth. I go along slowly, watching for whatever may present itself.

One of the best days of the year, for me, was Decoration Day, when people would come from near and far with flowers to decorate the graves. Besides being beautiful and fragrant with all the roses and peonies and boughs of mock orange, it was a kind of grace and benediction, and a kind of homecoming. I liked to make a show of being busy in the graveyard so I could watch and listen.

When we convene again to understand the world, the first speaker will again point silently out the window at the hillside in its season… and we will nod silently, and silently stand and go. Sabbaths 2000 II

Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.