Observation Quotes

There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication.

I can envision observations and experiments that would disprove any evolutionary theory I know.

People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.

I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me.

He never reckoned much to schooling and that. He said you could learn most what was worth knowing from keeping your eyes and ears peeled. Best way of learning, he always said, was doing.

Often we don't notice the stringent rules to which our culture subjects us.

In a state of pseudo-death you restore your substance.

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

Adults tend to repress their pleasure. Sad to say, I think we become adults only through disappointment, grief, and lies. So of course gradually we become tough, less sensitive.

Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

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

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can comprehend human nature.

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

We see what we want to see, and observation conforms to hypothesis.

Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning

[An engineer's] invention causes things to come into existence from ideas, makes world conform to thought; whereas science, by deriving ideas from observation, makes thought conform to existence.

Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.

Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.

It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.

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

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

Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism.

It is a common observation that a science first begins to be exact when it is quantitatively treated. What are called the exact sciences are no others than the mathematical ones.

Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation.

It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition.

It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.

Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience.

Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.

Inventive man has invented nothing -- nothing from scratch. If he has produced a machine that in motion overcomes the law of gravity, he learned the essentials from the observation of birds.

children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.

Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, is limited in act and understanding by his observation of the order of nature; neither his understanding nor his power extends further.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

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

The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking.

I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go beyond sensations we are making inferences.

We must look a long time before we can see

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve adds vastly to the latent force of character.

To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well.

Dissent is the mark of freedom, as originality is the mark of independence of mind. … No one can be a scientist … if he does not have independence of observation and of thought.

In every place, where there is any thing worthy of observation, there should be a short printed directory for strangers.