Amusement, to an observing mind, is study. [ Beaconsfield ]

Had we not faults of our own we should take less pleasure in observing those of others. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Truth is never learned, in any department of industry, by arguing, but by working and observing. [ John Ruskin ]

In observing the world's movements, the most melancholy man would become merry, and Heraclitus would die of laughter. [ Chamfort ]

Something of a person's character may be discovered by observing when and how he smiles. Some people never smile; they merely grin. [ Bovee ]

The eyes of a man are of no use without the observing power. Telescopes and microscopes are cunning contrivances, but they cannot see of themselves. [ Paxton Hood ]

In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature. [ Sir Joshua Reynolds ]

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of the bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. [ Pope ]

He said - and his observation was just - that a man on whom heaven hath bestowed a beautiful wife should be as cautious of the men he brings home to his house as careful of observing the female friends with whom his spouse converses abroad. [ Cervantes ]

All men who have sense and feeling are being continually helped; they are taught by every person they meet, and enriched by everything that falls in their way. The greatest is he who has been oftenest aided. Originality is the observing eye. [ Ruskin ]

In some exquisite critical hints on Eurythmy. Goethe remarks, that the best composition in pictures is that which, observing the most delicate laws of harmony, so arranges the objects that they by their position tell their own story. And the rule thus applied to composition in painting applies no less to composition in literature. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]