Quotes About Observation

The continuous invention of new ways of observing is man's special secret of living.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.

No man had ever heard a nightingale, When once a keen-eyed naturalist was stirred To study and define -- what is a bird.

Wouldst thou know thyself, observe the actions of others. Wouldst thou other men know, look thou within thine own heart.

What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding them in the familiar place.

I tried to make a list of films where there's two men and one woman and I realized there's films like this everywhere.

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in their station. Pray, shall not a man act like a man?

First, they were bred when I was not capable to observe or before I was born; likewise the breeding of men is of a different manner from that of women.

A clever man can see the world from a cave much better than a stupid man can from the top of a mountain!

A wise man watches his faults more closely than his virtues; fools reverse the order.

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

At the sight of what goes on in the world, the most misanthropic of men must end by being amused, and Heraclitus must die laughing.

Another of these strong silent men. The world is full of us.

Middle age is the time of life that a man first notices in his wife.

I think most actors are shy. I really do. The greatest actors can disappear. I had friends call me the Blend-In Man.

If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.

Why do men go to zoos?

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking - that is imagination!

I have seen many a bear led by a man: but I never before saw a man led by a bear.

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.