"There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distill it out."

-- Shakespeare

"To become an observer of your life is to escape from a life of suffering."

-- Oscar Wilde

"To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence."

-- Krishnamurti

"We have to remember that what we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

-- Heisenberg

"The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution."

-- Paul Cezanne