Quotes about Observation
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
— William Faulkner
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
— Samuel Johnson
There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.
— Albert Einstein
People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.
— Max Lucado
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
— William Hazlitt
Those who do not weep, do not see.
— Victor Hugo
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
— Khalil Gibran
There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.
— Anne Lamott
where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?
— Victor Hugo
The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water
— Paulo Coelho
You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
— Dr. Seuss
The visible world is a daily miracle for those who have eyes and ears; and I still warm hands thankfully at the old fire, though every year it is fed with the dry wood of more old memories.
— Edith Wharton