"It is not easy to describe the sea without the mouth."
Kokyu

"If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist."
John Dewey

"The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way."
Keanu Reeves

"Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
Albert Einstein

"How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?"
E. M. Forster

Tell me, and I'll forget. Show me, and I may remember. Involve me, and I'll understand.
Native American proverb

"Must we always teach our children with books? Let them look a the stars and the mountains above. Let them look at the waters and the trees and flowers on earth. Then they will begin to think, and to think is the beginning of a real education."
David Polis

Seeing is different than being told.
Proverb from Kenya

"By pushing the right biological buttons in the brain, scientists are finding they can make the future brighter for many children whose development otherwise would have been stunted . . . . How the buttons work is perhaps the most amazing thing of all. The buttons are the senses: vision, taste, smell, touch and sound and they can be pushed by experiences from the outside world."
Ronald Kotulak

"Observe perpetually."
Henry James

"Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn."
Elizabeth Lawrence

"Nothing takes root in mind when there is no balance between doing and receiving."
John Dewey

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."
Eden Phillpotts

"The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands."
Robert M. Pirsig

"If I have learnt anything it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return."
Margot Fonteyn

"The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function."
Richard Restak

". . . the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input."
Eric Jensen

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
Berthold Auerbach

"If it isn't used, it isn't learned."
Aleksandr Luria

"Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing."
Michael Polanyi

"Motion is the context of living. We find meaning by and in our doing."
Robert Kegan

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.
Latin proverb

"The more voices we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our concept of this thing, our objectivity be."
Fredrich Nietzsche

"Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain."
Carl G. Jung

"All of us are watchers—of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway—but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing."
Peter M. Leschak, writer and firefighter

Seeing many things, but thou observest not.
Isaiah 42: 20

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order."
John Burroughs

"One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard."
Eric Hoffer

"Listen to your life. See it for the fathomless mystery that it is. In the boredom and pain of it no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it because in the last analysis all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace."
Frederick Buechner, author, from Now and Then

"You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life."
J. Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher

"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule."
Samuel Butler
 

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
Benjamin Franklin

"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
Robert Southey

"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
Leonardo da Vinci