Silent Observation Quotes

#1. If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#2. In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. The key to wisdom is silent observation and reflection.

Debasish Mridha

#4. In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the length of a book inside another person.

Lauren Groff

#5. It's important for the progressive youth to remember that the agenda you set today is the agenda that will matter tomorrow. If you are engaged and active, it means you are one of the lucky ones and you are awake. Most people are not there yet.

Darryl Pinckney

#6. I have always chosen my friends from a silent distance, picking them out after a short observation period and only then attempting to get to know them.

Katie Heaney

#7. You are still young enough to think that torment of the spirit is a splendid thing, a sign of a superior nature. But you are no longer a young man; you are a youngish middle aged man, and it is time you found out that these spiritual athletics do not lead to wisdom.

Robertson Davies

#8. Have you never, when waves were breaking, watched children at sport on the beach, With their little feet tempting the foam-fringe, till with stronger and further reach Than they dreamed of, a billow comes bursting, how they turn and scamper and screech!

Alfred Austin

#9. Jesus said, 'Enter into My rest' and let God do what He does best

R. Alan Woods

#10. Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.

Orrin Woodward

#11. I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I guess it usually is.

Joe Haldeman

#12. The thoughts that come often unsought, and, as it were, drop into the mind, are commonly the most valuable of any we have.

John Locke