Quotes about Observation

A village is a hive of glass, where nothing unobserved can pass.

The principle to be kept in mind is to know what we see rather than to see what we know.

The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.

What we see evidence for in others, we will attend to within, what others are silent about, we may stay blind to or experience only in shame.

It was C. S. Lewis who observed that there exists in every church something that sooner or later works against the very purpose for which it came into existence. So we must strive very hard, by the grace of God to keep the church focused on the mission that Christ originally gave to it.

The most astonishing observation one makes today is that people surrender everything in the face of nothingness: their own judgment, their humanity, their neighbors. Where this fear is exploited without scruple, there are no limits to what can be achieved.[130]

Be truly present in the moment that you are in and don't let life slip by unnoticed.

I felt myself becoming angry too easily. I once saw a couple at a restaurant, and I could tell from their mannerisms that they were having some type of disagreement. I got mad at the guy and wanted to tell him, "Come on — appreciate your wife!

But, as so often has been observed, we are to establish our beliefs by the Bible, not by our experiences.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

During the night two porpoises came around the boat and he could hear them rolling and blowing. He could tell the difference between the blowing noise the male made and the sighing blow of the female. 'They are good,' he said. 'They play and make jokes and love one another. They are our brothers like the flying fish.

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.