Quotes About Observation

I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.

I guess it's true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That's atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.

The value of a canvas depends almost entirely on your mental attitude, not on your moral attitude; depends on what kind of a man you are, the way you observe.

When you hang a man, you better look at him.

But it is a miracle that a dead man should come to life; because that has never been observed in any age or country.

If I can fool a bug... I can surely fool a man. People are not as smart as bugs.

Myths are early science, the result of men's first trying to explain what they saw around them.

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?

Is there anything so wretched as to look at a man of fine abilities doing nothing?

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

Kids, man, they're way too honest. They're like mini-alcoholics.

The highest point to which a weak but experienced mind can rise is detecting the weakness of better men.

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

[Adolf Hitler] was an emotional man, he had tremendous highs and he could get low as well, I've seen it.

Study men, not historians.

He is the only man I ever met with a seersucker face.

A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of what he has observed, he does not observe.

How do I know that there is a God? In the same way that I know, on looking at the sand, when a man or beast has crossed the desert - by His footprints in the world around me.

The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees worlds beyond; but, if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but that.

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.