97 Quotes About Observations

I don’t argue with fools; I educate.

It is easier to tell a person what life is not, rather than to tell them what it is. A child understands weeds that grow from lack of attention, in a garden. However, it is hard to explain the wild flowers that one gardener calls weeds, and another considers beautiful ground cover.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

Then it dawned on me that inexperience/ignorance speaks from a blissful place. And those people should be falling to their knees thanking GOD each night that he didn’t choose them, to experience life’s hardest trials, but understand that he saw in someone else, the capability.

You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations.

We do not need to attend classroom training programs for everything, our observation opens the windows of knowledge around us.

A lot of countries surrounding Italy aren't so bad. That's because the Roman Empire conquered and raped their women. So there is a little bit of Italian in everybody! This is good news, as all Italians bear this in mind when dealing with our neighbors and other foreign-fucked, heavily raped countries, and it gives us the resolve and compassion to deal with their bullshit.

[Aunt] Patricia smiled, and we walked in silence for a while. But it wasn't a poisonous silence. It was the sort of silence shared by two people who're comfortable enough not to force a conversation ahead of its logical progression. I found this woman's company to be incredibly soothing.