Quotes about Observation
There is an awful lot of difference between reading something and actually seeing it, for you can never tell, till you see it, just how big a liar History is.
— Will Rogers
It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.
— CS Lewis
I hope my books make statements about our general condition.
— William Golding
God likes a little humor, as is evidence by the fact that he made the monkeys, the parrot -- and some of you people.
— Billy Sunday
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
— William Faulkner
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
— Samuel Johnson
There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them.
— Albert Einstein
People are watching the way we act, more than they are listening to what we say.
— Max Lucado
I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
— William Hazlitt
Those who do not weep, do not see.
— Victor Hugo
Said a skunk to a tube-rose, "See how swiftly I run, while you cannot walk nor even creep." Said the tube-rose to the skunk, "Oh, most noble swift runner, please run swiftly!"
— Khalil Gibran
There is ecstasy in paying attention. You can get into a kind of Wordsworthian openness to the world, where you see in everything the essence of holiness.
— Anne Lamott