Interpreting Quote by Mason Cooley

Observing and understanding are two different things.

— Mary E. Pearson

Is it possible to observe without the observer?

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You see, but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.

— Sherlock Holmes

We need to interpret interpretations more than to interpret things.

— Anonymous

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You see, but you do not observe.

— Anonymous

If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations…

— Harold Jeffreys

An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.

— Niels Bohr

“observation comes first, then interpretation.”

— Eben Alexander III

Seeing does not always believe.

— Rod Serling

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

— Heinz von Foerster