Quotes About Observation

He has more chins than a Chinese phone book.

Today at the beach I could feel the men dressing me with their eyes.

It is easier to know mankind in general than man individually.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright.

They asked Lucman, the fabulist, From whom did you learn manners? He answered: From the unmannerly.

The student is to collect and evaluate facts. The facts are locked up in the patient.

I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

There must be at least 500 million rats in the United States; of course, I am speaking only from memory.

Great opportunities come to all, but many do not know they have met them. The only preparation to take advantage of them is ... to watch what each day brings.

No matter how old a mother is, she still watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.

The next time it begins to rain ... lie down on your belly, nestle your chin into the grass, and get a frog's-eye view of how raindrops fall . . . The sight of hundreds of blades of grass bowing down and popping back up like piano keys strikes me as one of the merriest sights in the world.

Newspapers are the world's mirrors.

AH I know is what I see in the papers.

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.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there's a great difference in the beholders.

The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harsher blows, make acute and balanced observers.

Taking time to live is taking time to appreciate simple silence as better than any kind of talk, or watching a flower, or watching a guy wash the windows on a skyscraper and wondering what he is thinking.

If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.