Quotes About Observation

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle, When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

I hate to force anything. A lot of people say that comedy is twenty percent truth, and eighty percent fallacy. I believe that you have to have lived through something to write about it.

Truth is what will be steadily borne out by subsequent experience

Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all: the conscientious historian will correct these defects.

LEAR: ...yet you see how this world goes.GLOS.: I see it feelingly.

It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.

Keep your head down, Edward. Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

A 'black' man who draws a 'black' person with big lips is called observant. A 'white' man who does the same is called a racist.

I Prefer Reading Eyes As Eyes Are Very Powerful. It Can Reveal The Ins And Outs of A Man....

The truth is not what I look for. It is what I look at!

It takes one to know one, be careful what you say of others.

The beauty of being a woman, as the French say, "of a certain age", is that I can be invisible. Young people, both men and women, look right through me, unless I make the effort to be noticed.

Have an appreciating eye to enjoy the beauty of sky.

Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement

The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.

Some of you may not like what I had to say, but these are the things that I've noticed and believe should be said.

We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

It was hard to live normally when you were constantly pretending you didn't see what was going on in front of your face.

What you see is what you see

Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.