Quotes About Observation

We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.

Though how nature works is way beyond man's ability to comprehend, I have found that observing how nature works offers innumerable lessons that can help us understand the realities that affect us.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

Once as I sat painting, I became aware of a man's face hovering near me, moving closer and closer to the panel I was working on. When he spoke he said, 'That is a fantastic brush!

A big man is always accused of gluttony, whereas a wizened or osseous man can eat like a refugee at every meal, and no one ever notices his greed.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

It is easy for a man who sits idle at home, and has nobody to please but himself, to ridicule or censure the common practices of mankind.

Never believe extraordinary characters which you hear of people. Depend upon it, they are exaggerated. You do not see one man shoot a great deal higher than another.

Nobody can write the life of a man but those who have eat and drunk and lived in social intercourse with him.

Good tuna-fish sandwiches; he's the tallest man I've ever seen! (Pam)

A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the pleasure of triumphing over men of more imagination than he

A more conscious life is one in which a man is conscious not only of what he sees, but of the prejudices with which he sees it.

You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next.

There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old.

Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly. Say what the use, were finer optics giv'n, T' inspect a mite, not comprehend the heav'n.

Any one prominent in affairs can always see when a man may steal a horse and when a man may not look over a hedge.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

Every wise man lives in an observatory.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.