Best 292 quotes in «observation quotes» category

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability.

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.

Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.

The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it.

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.

The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience

The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.

There's certainly a portion of my brain that is always tuned to making wry observations about the world, but that portion of my brain was alive and well before Twitter.

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.

True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system.

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book.

Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

We must look a long time before we can see

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.

You have to unzip your heart before you unzip your pants.

While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.

a dementia sufferer effuses delight and notices very different things when taken out in her wheelchair. Such people can teach us to see again the little things that make a big difference. They can show us how to enjoy familiar environments with fresh new eyes.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation

All this seeing. All this relentless taking in.

Anagrams are everywhere, especially when you’re waiting, ‘toilet’ can give ‘Eliott’ i just found out.

A Romantic builds everyday fulfillment through tenacious observation of daily life and an abundance of reliance on intuition. The result: An extraordinary life lived in ordinary days.