Observation Quotes

Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.

Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru.

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

An old pop music producer once said that there are really only four kinds of song a person can write: "I love you/I hate you/go away/come back!" That's a funny observation.

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

The first observation of cancer cells in the smear of the uterine cervix gave me one of the greatest thrills I ever experienced during my scientific career.

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

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

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

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

The ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions.

I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me.

People sometimes talk about the power of first impressions, and believe me, there is truth to it.

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 I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.

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

Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth.

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

No longer in a relational universe, can we study anything as separate from ourselves. Our acts of observation are part of the process that brings forth the manifestation of what we are observing.

The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought and your own observation you can make of it what you will

It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people were born in the same village, you'd blame pollution, wouldn't you?

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

Hope clouds observation.

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

An atom is a hierarchy of different states of information that define the statistical likelihood of finding a particle here or there at the time of observation.

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

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.

An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership.

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

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

The cafe windows wrapped all the way around the observation floor, which gave us a beautiful panoramic view of the skeleton army that had come to kill us.

When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they will say I have let them down.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

In 2002, in this country, there was an observation that for the first time in America, more kids were actively pursuing skateboarding than baseball.

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