Observation Quotes

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

~ Ka Chinery

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

~ Sara Sheridan

We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it.

~ C.g. Jung

The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting you knowledge was laced with a little voyeuristic sadism. They were waiting for the Look or the Reaction, and they didn’t care what it was so long as it inflicted some kind of discomfort.

~ Jeff Vandermeer

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.

~ Ken Kesey

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

~ Sandra Cisneros

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

I spend more time with the living, than the dead now.

~ Jennifer Hotes

Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.

~ Amit Ray

A genius masters the art of observation, and unites with the source of imagination to create advancements in the cause for human evolution.

~ T.f. Hodge

In the example of the navigator, no writing was essential to draw the meaning of observing the object at a distance from the ship. In the real theobservation has been noted and that is enough to give it a meaning, a subjective meaning, a meaning exclusively important for the navigator himself.

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Most of the things we deem as impossible are only impossible because we’ve given them permission to be impossible.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Beyond the visible is invisible.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

For all his secrecy and fear of being seen, he was touched that we had observed him so closely, and with such love. He loved that we knew him. This is one reason people need to believe in God -- because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

~ Tim Kreider

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

~ P.z. Myers

What we have now, shall never be again. The poets of the past sit in amazement of the wanna-be's of an era long gone.

~ T. Grassan

People who are out of control desperately need to observe your healthy boundaries in-play to learn from your example.

~ Bryant Mcgill

By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. What we actually do builds up to affect the subconscious mind and in turn affects the conscious mind and all reactions.

~ H.e. Davey

Mindfulness & Meditation help focus on the moment while at the same time knowing we cannot capture that moment, we are in a flow of moments we let flow. We can watch moments in detail without being attached to them. Non-attachment to past & future stems from this practice. Worry about past or future is wasted energy, however we can observe the past & learn from it without agonising over it & trust ourselves to handle the future better. We can celebrate the opportunity to grow as we gain understanding from observation & experience. We can watch ourselves & avoid being caught up in over-reactions. I am loved, right now, in this moment, I love, and am part of love itself. I am aware of myself at every level - the mental slowing gracefully to sense the spiritual within & all around, and the physical being still, or moving. I tune in to the flow of life in my body & the flow of life everywhere. I circulate love with each breath - from without to within & from within to all around.

~ Jay Woodman

Prose Poems from my book SPANOBSERVATIONSo, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can accept it, and love it. We can turn our faces to the light and examine the minutest details simply for the sake of it. We can live lives of joy and purpose. We are all part of one whole. Take comfort in this. Almost every one of us is capable of holding a cup to another’s lips without our hands shaking.

~ Jay Woodman

The source of all light is in the eye.

~ Alan W. Watts

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

~ Harlow Shapley

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation.

~ Antoine Lavoisier

...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings on her and calculated they weren't built to handle something like this on the ward, and just burned out, like machines committing suicide.

~ Ken Kesey

Open your eyes, you will see the greatness of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I look at everything. God gave me eyes and I look at women and men and subway excavations and moving pictures and the little flowers of the field. I casually inspect the universe.

~ Irwin Shaw

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

~ Tahir Shah

We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

~ T.s. Eliot

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

~ Bryant Mcgill

It has always been a mystery to me how Adam, Eve, and the serpent were taught the same language. Where did they get it? We know now, that it requires a great number of years to form a language; that it is of exceedingly slow growth. We also know that by language, man conveys to his fellows the impressions made upon him by what he sees, hears, smells and touches. We know that the language of the savage consists of a few sounds, capable of expressing only a few ideas or states of the mind, such as love, desire, fear, hatred, aversion and contempt. Many centuries are required to produce a language capable of expressing complex ideas. It does not seem to me that ideas can be manufactured by a deity and put in the brain of man. These ideas must be the result of observation and experience.

~ Robert G. Ingersoll

Not everything that is seen is visible.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Liberating a prejudiced mind from its preconceived notions and scripting a life of purposefulness requires constant postulation, observation, evaluation, and synthesizing.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

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~ Gurdieff

Try to pause each day and take a walk to view nature.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Those who believe they know it all should not fret when they ultimately realize they do not, for when there is nothing left to learn what challenges remain.

~ Matt Marlin

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 to know what my fate is to know that everything will be okay. Maybe the not knowing is how we move forward. Wherever I’m headed, I know it’s exactly where I’m supposed to be.

~ Susane Colasanti

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w

~ Susan Sontag

I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That's a writer. Always observing.

~ Mary Ellen Hannibal

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.

~ Tom Holland