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One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind


Alphonse Bertillon

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ONE [One, he observes, is as a corrupt executive in] A Sound of Thunder, ... Thunderbirds.
RAY BRADBURY They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Eyes can only capture objects that already seen in mind.
And mind can only see things that alre...
TOBA BETA A great man is one who recognizes his own weaknesses and observes other's strength.
J.J. BOWLERS Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
OTTO VON BISMARCK I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.
ANTHONY TROLLOPE They often begin by starting with what the child already knows and observes, and what the siblings k...
JOE FERRY But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal o...
JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Only one thing can conquer war - that attitude of mind which can see nothing in war but destruction ...
LUDWIG VON MISES Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American eagle, it observes only the rear end...
AMBROSE BIERCE That which you resists grows stronger; what you gently observes disappears.
JIM GENOVESE The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, SR. The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. You don't know, oh, oh
You don't know you're beautiful.
ONE DIRECTION Love yourself and your expression, you can't go wrong.
KRS-ONE We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.
DAY ONE If we could only have this life for one more day. If we could only turn back time. You know I'll be ...
ONE DIRECTION You know I'll be
Your Life
Your Voice
Your Reason To Be
My Love
My Heart...
ONE DIRECTION do not cry , you can focus the light spot with the eyes , the eyes of your heart . smile
MISTER ONE Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the...
DAY ONE I've been coming here since Day One, ... Watching games at home is no fun. It's boring. Here, we get...
DAY ONE If it was $10 a gallon, I'd be buying it today since you can't get it anywhere else,
DAY ONE Get every drop in there. Can't lose none,
DAY ONE big, medium and small.
DAY ONE Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I gues...
DAY ONE You hand fits in mine like its made to be but bear this in mind it was meant to be and im joining up...
ONE DIRECTION Tell me I'm a screwed up mess, that I never listen, listen. Tell me you don't want my kiss, that ...
ONE DIRECTION You're impossible to resist, but I wouldn't bet your heart on it. It's like I'm finally awake, and...
ONE DIRECTION Baby you light up my world like nobody else. The way that you flip your hair gets me overwhelmed. An...
ONE DIRECTION Why did the mushroom go to the party?
Because he's a fungi!
ONE DIRECTION The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
MARK HADDON In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes ex...
SAINT BASIL The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness ...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness ...
GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Why does one love? How queer it is to see only one being in the world, to have only one thought in o...
GUY DE MAUPASSANT Bond believes we are his pawns. He thinks no-one observes his game. But I am No-One. I observe every...
ALAN MOORE Belief and faith are the only things which take one forward in life!
DR. VINOD B. NAIR Fortunately, there is only
one Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria Hermans
Religion Of B...
PETRA HERMANS For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and...
XENOPHON One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
MARIE CURIE The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.
JEAN ROSTAND The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.
NAPOLEON HILL If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtu...
ROBERT ANTON WILSON One can give ‘correct’ opinion only if one has an open mind.
DADA BHAGWAN There are three versions of things: the one you see in your mind, the one that carries onto the pape...
JENNIFER LE Translation is always a treason, and as a Ming author observes, can at its best be only the reverse ...
KAKUZō OKAKURA The diffrence in man kind is you do or dont.
JAYDON One can only improvise what one knows.
DAVID THEWLIS in the end, everyone can understand themselves only. You are the only one to which you never have to...
RENATE DORRESTEIN The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one...
CHARLES KINGSLEY What the human eye observes causally and incuriously, the eye of the camera notes with relentless fi...
BERENICE ABBOTT No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.
RAY DAVIES Firing one team, only to hire the next one with the very same policy goals in mind, will not improve...
BOB MENENDEZ Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dar...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER Every once in a while, people step up. They rise above themselves. Sometimes they surprise you. And ...
ONE TREE HILL What kids are doing are killing themselves
They feel they have no control of their prisoner's c...
TWENTY ONE PILOTS One of the things about animal rights, which is not the only thing that I care about in this world, ...
SAM SIMON I'm just someone who observes a lot.
NADINE LABAKI If there are two men, Rod and Rob, and you can only steal from one, which one would you choose? The ...
JAROD KINTZ War is a racket. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits ...
SMEDLEY BUTLER Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone ...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotio...
DAVID HUME Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it s...
PAUL DE MAN We are before one gaze and His is the only one that counts.
DANA CANDLER Devotion is neither more nor less than a prompt, fervent, loving service to God. And the difference ...
FRANÇOIS DE SALES Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dain...
EMILY DICKINSON We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LUCRETIUS We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.
LUCIANO DE CRESCENZO As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only...
C.S. LEWIS Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one li...
ST. TERESA OF AVILA A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
BERNARD BARUCH A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
BERNARD M. BARUCH One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
OSCAR WILDE You are the only one who can.
CARROLL BRYANT This dwarf still observes the world from his own self-imposed height.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.
JEAN COCTEAU The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one.
EDWARD NOYES WESTSCOTT The only man who can change his mind is a man that's got one
EDWARD NOYES WESTCOTT Only Evil in the world is the one inside your mind.
RAYMOND TIO A conscience free from guilt leads to tranquility of the mind, and only a tranquil mind can see thin...
BOHDI SANDERS One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.
ORSON SCOTT CARD The art of the cuisine, when fully mastered, is the one human capability of which only good things c...
FRIEDRICH DURRENMATT One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. ...
PHILIP PULLMAN That's one of my favorite things about Twitter: You can tweak your feed into a fabulous novelty ...
WILLIAM GIBSON There is the title of one book In Underground One Can Meet Only Rats. And I'd re-phrase, In Cosmos O...
LARA BIYUTS It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY The only one I need is the only one can change My life.
JHEB KRUEGER (JEFF) No one can penetrate me, They only see what's in their own fancy, always
RAY DAVIES I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.
JOSEPH CONRAD Mind can comprehend things only at its particular level of vibration. As the mind become calm and qu...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU Rivers are lucky. They can only move in one direction.
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