Observe Quotes

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?

I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.

Art and nature have stores inexhaustible by human intellects; and every moment produces something new to him who has quickened his faculties by diligent observation.

Let Observation with extensive View, Survey Mankind, from China to Peru;

He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed.

It is by searching for means of communication that we sharpen our powers of observation.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

Observation – activity of both eyes and ears.

As a man is, so he sees.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers.