Quotes about Observation

Science starts with observation; but the observation is always selective. You have to look at the world through a lattice of projected concepts. Then you take the moksha-medicine, and suddenly there are hardly any concepts. You don't select and immediately classify what you experience; you just take it in. It's like that poem of Wordsworth's, 'Bring with you a heart that watches and receives.' In

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

Pay special attention to their agony so I might take some pleasure.

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

I wanted to get out and walk eastward toward the park through the soft twilight, but each time I tried to go I became entangled in some wild, strident argument which pulled me back, as if with ropes, into my chair. Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets... I saw him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without.

I always watch for the longest day in the year and then I miss it.