Quotes about Observation

Half the world does not know how the other half lives.

It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it.

I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front of his eyes in loops of wire. Is he blind?

in the night I took a lantern and went to see for myself.

And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

Modern barber college, Smith eyes closed suffers a haircut fearing its ugliness 50 cents, a barber student olive-skinned 'Garcia' on his coat, two blond small boys one with feared face and big ears watching from seats, tell him 'You're ugly little boy & you've got big ears' he'd weep and suffer and it wouldn't even be true, the other thinfaced conscious concentrated patched bluejeans and scuffed shoes who watches me delicate, suffering child that grows hard and greedy with puberty.

Only one thing I'll say for the people watching television, the millions and millions of the One Eye: they're not hurting anyone while they're sitting in front of that Eye. But neither was Japhy….

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.