OBSERVATION

Related Subjects: Experience, Knowledge, Perception, Sophistry

1. Seeing many things, but thou observest not; opening the ears, but he heareth not.—Bible, Isaiah 42:20
   

2. Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after: the more surprising that we do not look round a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.—CARLYLE, Sartor Resartus
   

3. The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there is great difference in the beholders.—EMERSON, Essays
   

4. I do love to note and to observe.—BEN JONSON, Volpone
   

5. I have seen the outward appearance of the city, but I have observed the manners of men too little.—PLAUTUS, Persa
   

6. To observations which ourselves we make,
   We grow more partial, for th' observer's sake.—POPE, Moral Essays
   

7. Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

8. For he is but a bastard to the time
   That doth not smack of observation.—SHAKESPEARE, King John