Quotes about Observation

The doctrine that future happiness depends upon belief is monstrous. It is the infamy of infamies. The notion that faith in Christ is to be rewarded by an eternity of bliss, while a dependence upon reason, observation and experience merits everlasting pain, is too absurd for refutation, and can be relieved only by that unhappy mixture of insanity and ignorance, called 'faith.

Everything that surrounds you can give you something.51 —Hungarian photographer André Kertész

Just look down the road and tell me if you can see either of them. I see nobody on the road. said Alice. I only wish I had such eyes,the King remarked in a fretful tone. To be able to see Nobody! And at such a distance too!

When you are describing, A shape, or sound, or tint; Don't state the matter plainly, But put it in a hint; And learn to look at all things, With a sort of mental squint.

You don't know much,' said the Duchess; 'and that's a fact.

Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what

If it had grown up, 'she said to herself, 'it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.' And she began thinking over other children she knew, who might do very well as pigs, and was just saying to herself, 'if one only know the right way to change them -

All this time the Guard was looking at her, first through a telescope, then through a microscope, and then through an opera-glass. At last he said, "You're travelling the wrong way," and shut up the window and went away.

she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed;

But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.