Quotes About Observation

Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass.

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions.

All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

A man is known by the silence he keeps.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another.

The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

There is no moral to my song, I praise no right, I blame no wrong; I tell of things that I have seen, I show the man that I have been As simply as a poet can Who knows himself poet and man.

... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see.

There's an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.

Nobody notices postmen, yet they have passions like other men.

Sight is the noblest sense of man.

An alert and learned man will take advice from any event.

No man lives or has ever lived who has brought the same amount of study and of natural talent to the detection of crime which I have done.

From what I have observed, when the anesthesia of love wears off, there is always the pain of consequences. You don't have to be stupid to marry the wrong man.

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me.

When a wise man points at the moon the imbecile examines the finger.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.