Quotes About Observation

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage. A man walks across this empty space, whilst someone else is watching him, and this is all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged.

The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.

By silence, I hear other men's imperfections and conceal my own.

To me the drawn language is a very revealing language: one can see in a few lines whether a man is really an architect.

There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.

Pay less attention to what men say. Just watch what they do.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.

To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions.

The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.

When you see stuff that's wrong... it's just wrong, man. You gotta point that out.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

Turkeys, quails, and small birds, are here to be seen; but birds are not numerous in desart forests; they draw near to the habitations of men, as I have constantly observed in all my travels.

A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.

Nothing dissects a man in public quite like golf.