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The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.
A. R. Orage, Essays and Aphorism
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osler, Aphorisms from Hi
To linger in the observation of things other than the self implies a profound conviction of their worth.
CharlesDamian Boulogne, My Frien
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue.
Samuel Johnson
You can observe a lot by watching.
Yogi Berra
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
George Carlin
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet infuse so much pleasure into life. A lovely child, a handsome youth, a beautiful girl, a heroic man, a maternal woman, a venerable old man, charm us, though strangers, and we cannot say so, or look at them but for a moment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, No
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur, lecture
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it.
Walter Bagehot
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope
Thinking is more interesting than knowing, but less interesting than looking
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Sa'di
Where there is much light, the shadow is deep.
Johann von Goethe
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that is the only way I can describe what I see. That is a proposition, a sentence, a fact; but what I perceive is not proposition, sentence, fact, but only an image which I make intelligible in part by means of a statement of fact. This statement is abstract; but what I see is concrete.early 1900's
Charles Sanders Pierce, manuscri
