Observation Quotes

Observation is an old man's memory.

Art demands constant observation.

We learn by observation, imitation and repetition.

I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.

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

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.

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.

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

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

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.

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.

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.

Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

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

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related by appropriate methods of inference.

All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of Divine grace.

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them?

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

Mystery is not profoundness.

Look around you...Feel the wind, smell the air. Listen to the birds and watch the sky. Tell me what's happening in the wide world.

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother.

Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.

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

My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation.

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

As the prerogative of Natural Science is to cultivate a taste for observation, so that of Mathematics is, almost from the starting point, to stimulate the faculty of invention.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation.

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

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike.

Dance has been transformed from an involuntary motor discharge, a ceremonial rite, into a work of art, conscious of, intended for, observation.

Those who have heard me speak from time to time know that quite often I cite the observation of that great American author, Mark Twain, who said, history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

It is through observation and perception of atmosphere that he [the artist] can register the feeling that he wishes his painting to give out.

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

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

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

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

The absolutist parades his good solid grounding in observation, reason, objectivity, truth and fact; the relativist sees only fetishes.

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