Quotation Explorer - 'Observing'

PLUNDER, v. To take the property of another without observing the decent and customary reticences of theft. To effect a change of ownership with the candid concomitance of a brass band. To wrest the wealth of A from B and leave C lamenting a vanishing opportunity. - Ambrose Bierce
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
[A]nd you may know how little God thinks of money by observing on what bad and contemptible characters he often bestows it."[Man and the Gospel (1865)] - Thomas Guthrie
If you don’t have a teacher, don’t worry. Learn by observing the best teacher which is nature. - Debasish Mridha
The universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it. - Abraham Hicks
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed. - Ernest Hemingway
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer
What happens depends on our way of observing it or on the fact that we observe it.
Most of the modern human society has nearly lost the faculty of observing the internal mechanism. - Abhijit Naskar
Knowledge is the facts and information accumulated through researching, observing or experience; Wisdom is the ability to choose certain aspects of knowledge acquired to be true, right and applicable to your life and society. Do not confuse the two. - Unarine Ramaru
If we can predict, then we have observed enough to know that what we are observing does not just happen randomly; we have noted a pattern of regularities. - Hugh Coolican
Theere is an imperative to be in a process, the energy & consciousness of life means for us to be constantly observing, learning & becoming. - Jay Woodman
I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex machine that can't be dismantled with a srewdriver. But that shouldn't prevent us from observing, from trying to understand, from discussing, and sometimes suggesting a subject for reflection. - Amin Maalouf
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
The acts of observing and judging are necessarily solitary acts. - Mike Klepper
Science is observing truth in the light of head. Religion is observing truth in the light of heart. Humanity is using both the lights. And education is developing that humanity. - Amit Ray
It is in the stillness of the mind that we perceive the heart with clarity. By constantly observing the inner weather, we steer through life wisely, steadfastly, sans regrets. - Daaji
Power is the gem of necessity. Without observing power, identity remains undiscovered. - Lionel Suggs
We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that. - Thomas Sterner
? If you are not awed in the presence of a Holy God, then I say you may be like the crowds we have been observing in the Gospel of Mark and think of Jesus as no more than a winning lottery ticket to solve your immediate problems. Once the ticket is cashed, you take the money and go your own way. - Jonah Books.com
The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. - Homer
Successful innovators recognize that discovery of great ideas come from looking at the same thing as everyone else and observing something different.
It's often about the simple things, isn't it? Painting and photography are first about seeing, they say. Writing is about observing. Technique is secondary. Sometimes the simple is the most difficult. - Linda Olsson
The process of becoming is not of doing but simply an act of observing. The internal process has been designed in such a way that it seems impossible for you to sit quietly even for some time at one place. - Roshan Sharma
[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it. - Jane Mayer
Judgment should never enter into the hearts and minds of others while observing another in a pain that cannot be understood. - Amy Denise
Observing someone doesn't mean that you know them. Too many folks think they know you when they really don't know you. - Werley Nortreus
Learn by reading, listening, observing, imitating, and emulating. - Debasish Mridha
Observing Subjectively; Objecting subjection's intimately. The Sublime from the relaxed state of awe, hatches the state of beauty which flows through.As Above So Below,As Within So Without,The Monad of Experience. - Kevin John Kull
When travelling, concentrate on the path! Don’t sleep! Don’t read! Just live the journey in full by observing the path instead of wandering in your own world! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating. - Graeme Roberts
HE LOOKS AT ME AND TELLS ME IM AGGRESSIVE, HE'S OBSERVING ME. "-CRUSH - LORINDA MONRREAL
Standing alone and observing from an edge "the giant universe" isn't that much scary than leaving yourself with your thoughts and creating insight in yourself!Equally big universe lies within ourselves as well - raja shakeel mushtaque
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