Best 292 quotes in «observation quotes» category

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

An eye critically nice can only be formed by observing well-colored pictures with attention.

Any observations from the Moon or a sense of realising this or that about the greater meaning of things wasn't as influential for me as the experience of coming back and dealing with being a person who's been to the Moon.

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

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.

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

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

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

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

I blog; therefore, I am.

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

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.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

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.

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

In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches.

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

Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation.

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

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

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

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

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

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

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

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

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 will not always take the place of simple observation.

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

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

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

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

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

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