Quotes about Observation

Silence often expresses 'more powerfully than speech the verdict and judgment of society.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

We can all see God in exceptional things, but it requires the culture of spiritual discipline to see God in every detail.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

I looked down by chance, and went on passionately staring by choice, at my own crossed legs," the writer and philosopher recollected. "Those folds in the trousers ? what a labyrinth of endlessly significant complexity! And the texture of the gray flannel ? how rich, how deeply, mysteriously sumptuous.

Science starts with observation; but the observation is always selective. You have to look at the world through a lattice of projected concepts. Then you take the moksha-medicine, and suddenly there are hardly any concepts. You don't select and immediately classify what you experience; you just take it in. It's like that poem of Wordsworth's, 'Bring with you a heart that watches and receives.' In

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

I mean, I find things that happened in real life to be the funniest - things that you observe instead of crazy abstract things, you know.

The scenes of our life are like pictures done in rough mosaic. Looked at close, they produce no effect. There is nothing beautiful to be found in them, unless you stand some distance off.

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.