LEITURAS PARA O DIA DE REFLEXÃO - 3

Of no account at all
how you look.
But what you have seen
and what you reveal does count.
It is worth knowing what you know.
They will watch you
to see how well you have watched. (...)

To observe you must learn to compare.
To be able to compare
you must have observed already.
From observation comes knowledge.
But knowledge is needed to observe.
He who does not know
what to make of his observation
will observe badly.

Bertolt Brecht, Gedichte aus dem Messingkauf