51 quotes found
“It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.”
“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 Re...”
“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.”
“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 interpr...”
“The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.”
“Observing is the basis of wisdom.”
“The more one thinks, the less one sees.”
“It's only because I've lived with brothers that I realize, after a moment, that he's not looking outside but rather inside, wrestling with something inside himself. And there's nothing for it but t...”
“In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.”
“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.”
“There is a coarse and ugly temperament and tenor observable in the common unconscious person.”
“Learn to see what you are looking at.”
“The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.”
“We don't think. We think we think.”
“Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.”
“My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all scientific endeavors depend on observation and experimentation. Through such pursuits, anyone can ...”
“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
“The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.”
“Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.”
“All of us are watchers - of television of time clocks of traffic on the freeway - but few are observers. Everyone is looking not many are seeing.”
