Observation Quotes

The Thing about people who wanted to show you things was that sometimes their interest in granting y...

But if one observes, one will see that the body has its own intelligence; it requires a great deal o...

Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, whe...

The look that one directs at things, both outward and inward, as an artist, is not the same as that ...

Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discover...

Seven years, Dawn. Working with the Slayer. Seeing my friends get more and more powerful... a witch....

The stars up close to the moon were pale they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of th...

But I remember one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf, it was people that first started ac...

...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she d...

It's only because I've lived with brothers that I realize, after a moment, that he's not looking out...

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly al...

If, years later, I do use the slit detector to observe which way the electron went, it will mean tha...

If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my des...

To acquire knowledge, one must study;but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

I think that the event which, more than anything else, led me to the search for ways of making more ...

To resolve the discrepancy between waves of probability and our commonsense notion of existence, Boh...

Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine ...

If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to s...

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure.

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ...

My evening visitors if they cannot see the clock should find the time in my face.

The difference between landscape and landscape is small but there's a great difference in the behol...

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.

Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about bo...

I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know their names are What and Why and When and H...

(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a consta...

Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.

The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my ...

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

Observation is a dying art.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w

Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...

A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.", Frankfurt Book Fair, October 12, 20...

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

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

...[She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her frien...

A sunset, almost formidable in its splendor, would be lingering in the fully exposed sky. Among its ...

The ear tends to be lazy craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected the eye on the othe...

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

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

As a man is so he sees.

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at ...

There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite ...

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

Mindfulness is observing and asking why. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton asked why.

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

I always notice flowers.

We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ough...

For if we are observed in all matters, we are constantly under threat of correction, judgment, criti...

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without che...

I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance.

One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one...

Learn to see what you are looking at.

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

The club is too loud to talk, so after a couple of drinks, everyone feels like the centre of attenti...

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated—yet nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most ...

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

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the th...

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider ...

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is n...

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he co...

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philo...

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet esca...

Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning...

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – ...

My science teachers always encouraged their classes to 'go out and discover something' because all s...

The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-l...

I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to posi...

As if a great creature had grown old without being able to express its feelings. Not that it didn't ...

The eye is the jewel of the body.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way—without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secre...

You know, when I was in Paris, seeing Linter for the first time, I was standing at the top of some s...

I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independen...

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true moti...

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation i...

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