Best 292 quotes in «observation quotes» category

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

A growing body of clinical observation has pointed to the conclusion that the family therapy must be oriented to the family as a whole.

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

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

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

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

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

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

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

I blog; therefore, I am.

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.

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

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'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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

[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.

Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

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

Look slowly and hard at something subtle and small.

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

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