Quotes about Observation

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.

I was highly pleased to see the discipline of the pack, and the good-nature of the Knight, who could not find in his heart to murder a creature that had given him so much diversion.

Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.

Somehow, though he moves right in front of me, I don't see him; quietly but surely he's active, and I miss it.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

It keeps us ever mindful of life, how it streams by in an awful rush if one is not careful to stop and listen...and honestly see. (Main character Annie Zook)

Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.

Paris ain't much of a town.

An English man does not travel to see English men.

Let observation with extended observation observe extensively.

Women on trains have a life that is exactly livable the precision of days flashing past