Quotes About Observation

In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive.

excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous

pleasure from observing the urban scene completely objectively and aesthetically.

We would get to study you, frankly," said a tall, lean man who, I kid you not, looked just like Bill Nye the Science Guy.

There I sat and waited. Alone in the dark. Because that's what detectives do. We sit. We watch. And we wait. Sooner or later something happens. It always does.

Everything's interesting. You just have to look closely." "And most people don't.

Robert Jordan put up his field glasses, shading the lenses carefully with his cupped hands even though there was now no sun to make a glint, and there was the rail of the bridge as clear as though you could reach out and touch it and there was the face of the sentry so clear he could see the sunken cheeks the ash on the cigarette and the greasy shine of the bayonet.

With the Great Detective to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

Whenever I go to a hospital to visit someone, I must confess that half my mind is thinking, Hm, this would make a good detail in a scene….

Every author who writes on a variety of topics will have sometimes occasion to describe what he has himself felt.

The theologian Reinhold Niebuhr observed that the Engel decision practically suppresses all religion, especially in the public schools. Engel and other cases did more than anything else over time to arouse the religious Right from its political quietism. Other Americans, too, thought that the justices had lost their minds.20

I am not a cat man, but a dog man, and all felines can tell this at a glance - a sharp, vindictive glance.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself.

To see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to, to draw closer, to see and be amazed.

Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle; and so on down to swallows at twilight who scare the hell out of me. But pigeons have absolutely no effect on me.

The Duke is lamer than I am old, and I am shorter than he is cold, but it comes to you with some surprise that I am wiser than he is wise.

People who do not understand pigeons?and pigeons can be understood only when you understand that there is nothing to understand about them?should not go around describing pigeons or the effect of pigeons.

See is deceiving. It's eating that's believing.

Con una visión perfecta uno se ve inextricablemente atrapado en el mundo cotidiano, prisionero de la realidad (...) Para la persona con ojos de halcón, la vida no posee ninguno de aquellos aspectos suaves que para mí se confunde con la fantasía

These observations verify that chimpanzees are a second species—in addition to humans—that deliberately seek out and kill members of their own species. The remarkable violence of humanity is not uniquely ours. The species most closely related to us genetically—chimpanzees, with whom we share 98.4 percent of our DNA—also have a dark side to their nature.

A fight between grasshoppers is a joy to the crow. ~ Lesotho Proverb

When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.

MacMurrough shifted his gaze from the thick spittle-wet mouth and stared instead through the garden windows. What a dreary drunk he was. He recalled the Spartan custom of inebriating slaves that young men should see how contemptible was drunkenness. Nowadays we leave it to our leshishlashors.

If we observe the nature, we well learn too many things which human kind may never teach us.