Quotes About Observation

The fool strikes. The wise man smiles, and watches, and learns. Then strikes.

I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

The golden eye of justice sees, and requites the unjust man.

I am a man for whom the outside world exists.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men, will know how things are.

Man-made things, buildings, boats, etc., we see more decidedly than the other things in a landscape.

The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

We cannot learn men from books.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

I early became conscious that men breathe more audibly than women. Sit in a room in silence with men and women, and you can always hear the men breathing.

A sketch of a man facing to the right.

The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

I don't go to parties to meet men. I go to parties to stand in a corner and watch people.