A public outcry usually masks a private obsession.

I sometimes think my head is so large because it is so full of dreams.

Observing and understanding are two different things.

Observe and learn from stronger and better people than yours instead of laughing and pulling legs of poor and weak than yours.

Observation is at its core an expression of love which doesn’t get caught up in sentiment.

Enchantment lies in everyday moments if you are observant.

I tried telling him without telling him, through body language, and I observed he was unobservant.

Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way – in the minutiae of observation.

You have no tail!” said Brightspot. her own whipped suddenly forward; she stared, first at it, then at Wilson.”How do you manage?

The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I’ve used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of...

Most people he knew, his wife included, wouldn’t make it through an hour on the promise of four sentences. But Frankie Bard was like a camel. She could hold her words for days–as long as...

Observing the stream of eternal and simple truth is the same for all who look upon the fountainhead of consciousness.

The source of all light is in the eye.

Jetez sur une étoile un rapide coup d’œil, regardez-la obliquement, en tournant vers elle la partie latérale de la rétine (beaucoup plus sensible à une lumière faible que la partie centrale), et vous verrez l’étoile...

Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the Casimir effect, where forces between metal plates in empty space are modified by...

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

Everywhere I go, it’s me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

They have taken the situation very seriously indeed — including the high profile visit by the prime minister, observation of thousands of people, enforcing bird culls and vaccinating poultry,

You are the observer who watches your emotions as they push, pull and stretch you.

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of...

A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

a dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show...

Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

Don’t be fool enough to think you can know a person’s character after a few moments of observation. You can’t. You have no idea where his life began or how his saga has unfolded thus...

WEATHERSThis is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at ‘The Traveller’s...

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal of intelligence to observe the intelligence of the body.

there is very little ‘of course’ when it comes to custom

But I remember one thing: it wasn’t me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

The unknown is scary the Unknown can also be exciting. Your life could change in an instant anytime. But sometimes, that change is the best thing that will ever happen to you.Maybe I don’t have...

I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest of France,...

Not advisable is spread thickly over this entire situation.

Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which only spared children and the...

G. I. Gurdieff, “Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson”So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah’s favorite saying. p. 598

Remember yourself. Deep inside, you have an observer, a constant neutral witness to your posture, gesture, facial expression, breathing, taste, impressions of light and sound. Don’t leap to interpret. Just be there and observe.

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech...

Physical vision – one might say scientific vision – brings about a metaphysical shift in the observer’s view of reality as a whole. The geography of the earth, or the structure of the solar system,...

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Silence is more than observation; it informs from non-observation.

The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes to observe comes to his meridian; but the meteorologist has his observations bounded...

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.

If you’ve put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe – to see you, and to give a fuck – you’ve already blown it.

Almost every baseline fact of importance was changed — distance, lighting, observation.

From the dawn of exact knowledge to the present day, observation, experiment, and speculation have gone hand in hand; and, whenever science has halted or strayed from the right path, it has been, either because...

It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or at least they are not science.

Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody “I love you”, when you are considering your children, when you...