Quotes About Observation

For every man the world is as fresh as it was at the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

Everything I know I learned by listening and watching. Nowadays people learn out of books instead. Doctors study what man has learned. I pray to understand what man has forgotten.

There are three types of men in the world. One type learns from books. One type learns from observations. And one type just has to urinate on the electric fence himself.

You never know how much a man can't remember until he is called as a witness.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men.

To the man whose senses are alive and alert there is not even the need to stir from one's threshold.

A man who has been an animal has infinitely more knowledge of that animal than a man who has merely dissected one.

Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

By this means (fractional reserve banking) government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

A man whose extraordinary reputation thus lifts him up to the notice and observation of mankind, draws a multitude of eyes upon him, that will narrowly inspect every part of him.

You get to know more of the character of a man in a round of golf than in six months of political experience.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

Man is not in the world to set it right, but to see it rightly.

One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.

The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence.

Men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, it's the other way around

Lundist held that a man who can observe is a man apart. Such a man can see opportunities where others see only the obstacles

Men of genius are not quick judges of character.

As the purpose of comedy is to correct the vices of men, I see no reason why anyone should be exempt.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

Wherever a man commits a crime, God finds a witness. Every secret crime has its reporter.