Best 292 quotes in «observation quotes» category

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

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

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

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.

[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.

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

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

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

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Passion makes the best observations and the sorriest conclusions.

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

Sex is the mathematics urge sublimated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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