A Quote by Thomas Harris

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.

Thomas Harris

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Thomas Harris
American - Author
Born: April 11, 1940

In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

Saint Basil

... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes to seize and use reality in all its individuality and peculiarity.

Edmund Blair Bolles

Everyone who observes himself doubting observes a truth, and about that which he observes he is certain; therefore he is certain about a truth. Everyone therefore who doubts whether truth exists has in himself a truth on which not to doubt.... Hence one who can doubt at all ought not to doubt the existence of truth.

Saint Augustine

Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

H. G. Wells

The eye observes only what the mind, the heart, and the imagination are gifted to see; and sight must be reinforced by insight before souls can be discerned as well as manners, ideas as well as objects, realities and relations as well as appearances and accidental connections.

Edwin Percy Whipple

One not only drinks the wine, one smells it, observes it, tastes it, sips it and-one talks about it.

Edward VII

Matters of fact, which as Mr Budgell somewhere observes, are very stubborn things.

Matthew Tindal

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

Charles D. Broad

To set the mind above the appetites is the end of abstinence, which one of the Fathers observes to be not a virtue, but the groundwork of virtue.

Samuel Johnson

We usually meet all of our relatives only at funerals where somebody always observes: "Too bad we can't get together more often".

Bernard Berenson

Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse side of a brocade- all the threads are there, but not the subtlety of colour or design.

Okakura Kakuzo

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A German writer observes: "The noblest characters only show themselves in their real light. All others act comedy with their fellow-men even unto the grave.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

He who observes the infinite horizons will see the dangers before others.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

Thomas Jefferson

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