Leo Strauss Quotes

You can observe a lot by watching.

I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information these details give.

You can't just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.

You can learn so much just by observing.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

You don't know, but I'm noticing.

How can you see something that isn't there?" yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. "Sometimes, it's much simpler than seeing things that are,"he said. "For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones." "Then where is Reality?" barked Tock. "Right here,"cried Alec, waving his arms.

Everything inspires me; sometimes I think I see things others don’t.

I think my thing is that I try and pick up on things that other people have maybe not picked up on.

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

Vision is more than looking.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

I think perception is important.

To hate, to love, to think, to feel, to see; all this is nothing but to perceive.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

I'm trying to do what I have never done - give the impression one has on entering a room: one sees everything and at the same time nothing.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.