Quotes about Observation

If it had grown up, 'she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only know the right way to change them -

All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, "You're travelling the wrong way," and shut up the window and went away.

she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed;

But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

I looked down by chance, and went on passionately staring by choice, at my own crossed legs," the writer and philosopher recollected. "Those folds in the trousers ? what a labyrinth of endlessly significant complexity! And the texture of the gray flannel ? how rich, how deeply, mysteriously sumptuous.