Jane Austen Quotes

Beckett had an unerring light on things, which I much appreciated.

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

I just never really understood the reason I understood movies so well, and I didn't realize that me being such a people-watcher was even a gift at all.

To get a sense of a person, to get their essence, it's not just about details. It is about something you can't really describe.

The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

But wise is the man who disdains no character, but with searching glance explores him to the root and cause of all.

Owl hasn't exactly got Brain, but he Knows Things.

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

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

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

Observe, Remember, Compare.

It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' [everything]. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.

The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances.

A photograph is just a little, teeny-weeny, small piece of life. I feel like I see so much more than what I can actually get.

The beauty that is there is also available for me, too. But I see a deeper beauty that isn't so readily available to others.... I don't see how studying a flower ever detracts from its beauty. It only adds

What you look at hard seems to look at you.

I have walked with people whose eyes are full of light but who see nothing in sea or sky, nothing in city streets, nothing in books. It were far better to sail forever in the night of blindness with sense, and feeling, and mind, than to be content with the mere act of seeing. The only lightless dark is the night of darkness in ignorance and insensibility.

The difference between living and half living is seeing well, looking for associations between things, seeking the connections, being aware of scale and proportion.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

Understanding like the eye; whilst it makes us see and perceive all things, takes no notice of itself; and it requires art and pains to set it at a distance and make it its own subject.

But, somehow, Wilf knows. Somehow, Wilf always knows.

There are eyes, to be sure, that give no more admission into the man than blueberries.

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.

Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.

Good wits jump; a word to the wise is enough.