Best 292 quotes in «observation quotes» category

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

I blog; therefore, I am.

Have you ever noticed that idiots have a lot of friends? It's just an observation.

I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation.

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

In the mere observation of yourself, you begin the process of healing and transformation.

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

If you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.

I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more.

I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is an instance of aggrandized reflection that insinuates the human psyche to the inhuman.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people.

I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah.

[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

Obervation is a passive science, experimentation is an active science.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective.

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

One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.

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.

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