Quotes About Observation

But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.

Jim said that bees won't sting idiots, but I didn't believe that, because I tried them lots of times myself and they wouldn't sting me.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a women is, until after considerable acquaintance with her.

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.

All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the lower animals (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.

At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on there clothes to keep them from being stolen.

The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.

The mere knowledge of a fact is pale; but when you come to realize your fact, it takes on color. It is all the difference between hearing of a man being stabbed to the heart, and seeing it done.

Tom counted the pages of the sermon; after church he always knew how many pages there had been, but he seldom knew anything else about the discourse.

I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand.

It is not that I believe that there are too many idiots in this world, just that lightning isn't distributed right.

Do I know you? I know you clear through. I was born and raised in the South, and I've lived in the North; so I know the average all around. The average man's a coward.

What an ass you are!" Satan said. "Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination? No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat.

If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

It is ingeniously named, for it looks just as a cross would look if it looked like something else.

As regards his health--and the rest of the things--the average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year.

How blind and unreasoning and arbitrary are some of the laws of nature - the most of them, in fact!