Quotes About Observation

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

What you are looking for is what is looking.

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

Strange how much simple wisdom there is to be found in the deformed head and unprepossessing carcase of your typical London cabbie.

The only calendar I need is just outside my window. With eyes to see and ears to hear, nature keeps me posted.

I never cared who scored the goal, or which side won the silver cup. I never learned to bat or bowl; but I heard the curtain going up.

The wise man is astonished by anything.

Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware

When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door.

The way to test a man's sincerity is to serve him a bad cup of coffee. If he doesn't comment, he is not to be trusted.

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

Honesty and wisdom are such a delightful pastime, at another person's expense!

On the road to wisdom, behave like a raven and observe everything carefully!

The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture. The silent bear no witness against themselves.

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Kindness always starts with noticing the needs and hurts of others.

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed.

Just watching Robert De Niro was all the words of wisdom I really needed.

It is very easy to speak words of wisdom from a comfortable distance, when one sees no reality, no details, none of the effect on men's minds.

I walk into this room All eyes on me now But I do not know the people inside Look straight through me these eyes Seeking more wisdom Than I have to give away

What is madness To those who only observe, is often wisdom To those to whom it happens.