Quotes About Observation

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

One sees intelligence far more than one hears it. People do not always say transcendental things, but if they are capable of saying them, it is always visible.

There is no such thing as vicarious experience.

All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.

The silent dog is the first to bite.

Keep quiet and people will think you a philosopher.

I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease, observing a spear of summer grass.

Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rain-storms and did my duty faithfully.

A stranger's eyes see clearest.

There are three types of baseball players-those who make it happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happened.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

I noticed you weren't checking your watches - you've been shaking them.

Watchman, what of the night?

Tomorrow is a satire on today, And shows its weakness.

Discipline does not mean suppression and control, nor is it adjustment to a pattern or ideology. It means a mind that sees 'what is' and learns from 'what was'.

An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an Irishman, afterward.

Before he sets out, the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities, to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander, ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.

I'm not at all stuck up . . . although, judging from those around me, I have every right to be.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.