Best 292 quotes in «observation quotes» category

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

We must look a long time before we can see

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 unzip your heart before you unzip your pants.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

A whipping tongue scathingly lashes a false sense of power failing to reflect that a tongue portrays the character of its possessor!

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

Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the Casimir effect, where forces between metal plates in empty space are modified by the presence of virtual particles. Thus virtual particles are indeed real and have observable effects that physicists have devised ways of measuring. Their properties and consequences are well established and well understood consequences of quantum mechanics.

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.

A sunset, almost formidable in its splendor, would be lingering in the fully exposed sky. Among its imperceptibly changing amassments, one could pick out brightly stained structural details of celestial organisms, or glowing slits in dark banks, or flat, ethereal beaches that looked like mirages of desert islands. I did not know then (as I know perfectly well now) what to do with such things—how to get rid of them, how to transform them into something that can be turned over to the reader in printed characters to have him cope with the blessed shiver—and this inability enhanced my oppression.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world." [Speech upon being awarded the Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels (Peace Prize of the German Book Trade), Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 2003]

Beauty is everywhere you look, but you have to look.

Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine which state the object is in, we have to make an observation, which “collapses” the wave function, and the object goes into a definite state. The act of observation destroys the wave function, and the object now assumes a definite reality.

Beyond the visible is invisible.

Before her was a man who wasted words on no one. If he said something, you could take the worth of his words to the bank. In her home was a man who had the skill and talent to be anyone and chose to be the best version of himself.

Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.

But more usually I find that age has bestowed a kind of comfortable anonymity. We are not especially interesting, by and large--waiting for a bus, walking along the street; younger people are busy sizing up one another, in the way that children in a park will only register other children. We are not exactly invisible, but we are not noticed, which I rather like; it leaves me free to do what a novelist does anyway, listen and watch, but with the added spice of feeling a little as though I am some observant time-traveller, on the edge of things, bearing witness to the customs of another age.

Cause and effect is the basis of my education, leading me to an essence far more profound than any rule of societal conditioning.

Chaos is peaceful when you stand quietly & watch - we are eternal observers, reflecting both tiny & vast, singing infinitely within.

Children observe everything in nature.

Christmas comes but once a year, starts in August ends in July

Creative people come often at a stark difference between the kind and the mean spirited. Be they an artist or not in life their personal ingenuity is often a marvel to behold. They create opportunities where none were just seconds prior in existence. Creative souls without flexibility are an easy hallmark for a tyrant in behavior. The opposite is also true those creative types open to flexibility are usually more often than not easy going in demeanor. When such subcategories of personalities are highly intuitive they also shift their behavior to match the presence of their peers. Very much like an empathic chameleon able to change its colors so as to fit in out of habit or necessity.

Dean Walker, my brother. The man that's well on his way to earning the proud title of town drunk.

[D]avid began to argue, with the whining intonations of German astonishment, [...] that everyone did it.

[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with "a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it.

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?" I said nothing. "What colour's a blackbird?" she said. "Black" "Typical!