Quotes About Observation

Men of cold passions have quick eyes.

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

The more experience and insight I obtain into human nature, the more convinced do I become that the greater portion of a man is purely animal.

Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?

I Have traveled 201 countries including Hell (Norway), and the strangest thing I've seenwas man

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

I'd seen my father. He was a poor man, and I watched him do astonishing things.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

You can judge the moral bearing of a political system, a political institution, a political man by the degree of danger they attach to the fact of being observed through the eyes of a satiric poet.

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

Look twice at a two-faced man.

Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.

Listen to a man's words and look at the pupil of his eye. How can a man conceal his character?

Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

When I left the dining room after sitting next to Mr. Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But after sitting next to Mr. Disraeli, I thought I was the cleverest woman in England.

Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.

When a man can observe himself suffering and is able, later, to describe what he's gone through, it means he was born for literature.

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.