Observation Quotes

"You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's doing-- that's what counts" "Common sense ain't common." "She's a great genius for looking over other people's shoulders and detecting the faults they would fain conceal" "He listens well who takes notes" "What we see depends mainly on what we look for" "The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place " "Believe nothing you hear and only one half that you see" "Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one." "I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen" "We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look" "To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle." "I think people listen with their eyes, hearing sees more than the ear sees." "I think: the sky is blue and the flowers are red." "Science is nothing but perception" "Poetry is the watchful eye of the human race"