Quotes About Observation

The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given his sight, who first noted natural beauty.

I once met a man who said he had visited every exotic place from the Grand Canyon to the Great Wall, but when I questioned him closely I discovered he hadn't seen the songbirds in his own backyard.

In a Cafe" I watched a man in a cafe fold a slice of bread as if he were folding a birth certificate or looking at the photograph of a dead lover.

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.

A fool marvels at rare things, but a wise man at common ones.

A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.

Friends, you will notice that in this world there are many more ballocks than men. Remember this.

We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!

A SEEING eye is better than three hundred blind men's: The eye can distinguish pearls from pebbles.

God preserve us! If men knew what is done in secret, no one would be free from the interference of others.

WE HAVE SEEN that hunger and breathing are desires of the body. There are other desires that are not of the body, but again man seldom pauses to observe these desires in himself.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

I'm married, which means that instead of occasionally wondering about men from afar, I actually live with one and can be constantly astounded by the strange male brain.

...he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say 'The town is near,' but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

I am told so many ill things of a man, and I see so few in him, that I begin to suspect he has a real but troublesome merit, as being likely to eclipse that of others.

There was always more in the world than men could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace.