Quotes with observing

  • A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
  • I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

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  • Alexander Pope A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • C. V. Raman A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Amusement to an observing mind is study.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Socrates I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate ones.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bill Mauldin My outlook on warfare is best illustrated by a cartoon I did some thirty-odd years ago of a soldier in an Italian foxhole reading about the Normandy invasion and observing to his buddy that: The hell this ain't the most important hole in the world. I'm in it.
    Mud & Guts : A Look at the Common Soldier of the American Revolution
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • William S. Burroughs Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ''creative observation.'' Creative viewing.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • Alexander Pope One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bertrand Russell The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
    An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Albert Einstein Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Eric Hoffer You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Yogi Berra You can see a lot by observing.
    Yogi Berra
    American baseball player (1925 - 2015)
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