Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Quotes

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

A sponge sees everything? A sponge sees nothing.

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

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing.

I'm just someone who observes a lot.

I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.

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

I was quiet but I was not blind.

I'm inspired by everything that goes on around me. I'm a sponge. I'm very analytical. I notice the things that most people don't notice.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Kids are so shrewd.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

I got a great imagination, and I pay close attention to my surroundings and I'm very observant.

I'm not as naive as some people think.

Everything is surprising, rightly seen.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

Henry James claim that if you want to be a novelist you should be somebody on whom nothing is lost.

Edward was always focused, watching and also listening to what others couldn't see.

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

Gideon knew exactly what I liked. Not because I’d told him, but because he paid attention to everything about me.

You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.

It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?