Quotes about Observation

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

I don't make jokes, I just watch the government and report the facts.

Everything is funny, as long as it's happening to someone else.

The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

The most sensible people to be met with in society are men of business and of the world, who argue from what they see and know, instead of spinning cobweb distinctions of what things ought to be.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object.

For you are to observe, that Body begins not from itself, nor is any Thing of itself, but is all that it is, whether pure or impure, has all that it has, whether of Light or Darkness, and works all that it works, whether of Good or Evil, merely from Spirit.

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.

Darwinian evolution is unscientific, unobservable, unbelievable, but understandable in a world that hates God.

The best way to prove that a stick is crooked is to set a straight one beside it. No words need to be spoken.