The more you observe politics the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections they want observers.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general for it helps to form a habit of peace and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols which observe him with familiar glances.

What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

We are by nature observers and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits but not when it misses.

When the sword is once drawn the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

Observe all men thyself most.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time observe the hours of the universe not of the cars.

Insofar as international law is observed it provides us with stability and order and with a means of predicting the behavior of those with whom we have reciprocal legal obligations.

One secret of leadership is that the mind of a leader never turns off. Leaders even when they are sightseers or spectators are active not passive observers.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts their talents their insights their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

The increase of scientific knowledge lies not only in the occasional milestones of science but in the efforts of the very large body of men who with love and devotion observe and study nature.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace an observer who is aware of time's chariot aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer preferably a scientifically trained observer provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

To acquire knowledge one must study but to acquire wisdom one must observe.

It is only when you watch the dense mass of thousands of ants crowded together around the Hill blackening the ground that you begin to see the whole beast and now you observe it thinking planning calculating. It is an intelligence a kind of live computer with crawling bits for its wits.

For passion be it observed brings insight with it it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons fools and idiots especially during youth.

On the one hand the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.