Irwin Shaw Quotes

The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

The few wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them.

I simply liked looking at the world around us.

The wonder is that we can see these trees and not wonder more.

Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

I relax by looking at things and reading about things. Even the simplest thing can reveal a great deal about the world around us. It relaxes me greatly to sit back with my feet up and look around my study at the everyday things that surround me.

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.

I want to see, that's all. This is my life. I want to see.

Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.

It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.

The universe is wonderful, but only when there is somebody there to wonder at it.

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

High Alpine meadows, like their near relatives prairie, desert and certain varieties of wetland, teach us to consider the world from a fresh perspective, to open our eyes and take account of what we have missed, reminding us that, in spite of our emphasis on the visual in everyday speech, we see so very little of the world.