Quotes about Observation
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.
- Virginia Woolf
Kids watch their parents, right? And when kids are three, four, five-years-old, that's when they're like a sponge, and who they are is really developed by the time they are seven.
- Mathew Knowles
If men had wings and bore black feathers, Few of them would be clever enough to be crows.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Study men, not historians.
- Harry S. Truman
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.
- Henry Parry Liddon
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.
- Henry Ward Beecher
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.
- Henry Ward Beecher
What canst thou see elsewhere which thou canst not see here? Behold the heaven and the earth and all the elements; for of these are all things created.
- Thomas a Kempis
Nor can it be argued that the time required is too short to be perceived; for though this may be the case in short distances, it cannot be so in distances so great as that which separates the East from the West.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
So I sit there kicked my heels, thinking about New Orleans, and watching a morbid blue-bottle fly attempt to commit suicide by butting his head against the windowpane.
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do.
- Aung San Suu Kyi