If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know.
Jonathan D. SpenceTag: books experience knowledge observation hearsay
Must the interest of life wane for us all as the progress of knowledge curtails the playground of imagination? No doubt it must in some measure, but there is another cause.
I believe that in these days we have too many occupations, too many interests; we know too many things, and, if you will, have too many advantages and facilities. Our faculty of taking an interest is dissipated and frittered away.
Tag: life observation natural-history
It is odd how, when you have a secret belief of your own which you do not wish to acknowledge, the voicing of it by someone else will rouse you to a fury of denial.
Agatha ChristieTag: humor observation
I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell.
Tom HollandTag: evil observation good-and-evil contrast conquests heaven-and-hell observations villain
We do not need to attend classroom training programmes for everything. Observation opens the windows of knowledge around us
Sukant RatnakarTag: environment motivation observation solutions self-taught
Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.
Julie Andrews EdwardsTag: inspirational optimism happiness attitude observation umbrellas
What we beileve is what we see.
Sukant RatnakarTag: believe observation mindset
By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the body follows the mind. Logically then, negative thought patterns harm not only the mind but also the body. What we actually do builds up to affect the subconscious mind and in turn affects the conscious mind and all reactions.
H.E. DaveyTag: yoga subconscious observation meditation conscious universal-truth ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do mind-and-body-unification negative-thoughts
But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.
Jeff LindsayTag: observation stupid
Have I ever said that Turner once actually had himself lashed to the mast of a ship, to be able to later do a painting of a storm?
Which has never failed to remind me of the scene in which Odysseus does the identical thing, of course, so that he can listen to the Sirens singing but will stay put.
Tag: control observation
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