Quotes about Observation

The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near.

A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . .

What you see is what it is!

On observing 1963 America for the first time, the author says that organization and standardization to a certain degree compete with divine providence.

Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.

Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.