Alexander Graham Bell Quotes

You can observe a lot by watching.

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

And if you don't have your ears open, you're not going to be able to figure out what you should be doing.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.

You can learn so much just by observing.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

I'm the kind of person where I always digest everything around me.

Some people do not become thinkers simply because their memories are too good.

I had seen the great, but I had not seen the small.

I observe a lot. I see a lot around me.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study of the activities of men who have made notable marks, by striving to analyze the everyday play of causes and effects, by constant study of human nature.

I see myself as a witness to humanity.

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.