Observation Quotes

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.
Adam Smith

Greatest, Through, After

Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot

Nature, Reason, Creative

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

Experience, Books, Prime

We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Maria Montessori

Education, Power, Saying

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.
Laurence Sterne

Great, End, Fire

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Samuel Richardson

Women, Themselves, Seem

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.
Polly Toynbee

Happiness, Pain, Brain

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Samuel Smiles

Men, Wisdom, Old

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

Dreams, Parents, Anybody

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

Leadership, Women, Waiting

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
Wallace Stevens

Thinking, Accuracy, Equivalent

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.
Arthur Keith

Nature, Good, Men

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
Yukio Mishima

Truth, May, Become

The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
Sarah Palin

Politics, Through, Made

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

Truth, Few, Lead

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.
Anne Sullivan

Great, Children, Put

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

Place, Hollywood, Contract

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.
Robert James Graves

Daily, Whole, Progress

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation.
Ron Wyden

Human, Law, Until

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
Paul Getty

Change, Experience, Learned

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
Claude Bernard

Science, Active, Passive

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.
Lee Child

Life, Nothing, Person

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling it up from the darkest recesses of your mind or your heart. It's your experience and your observation.
Robert Carlyle

Experience, Mind, Heart

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.
David Mitchell

Funny, Character, True

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.
Walter Pater

Life, Human, Philosophy

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Robert Delaunay

Nature, Essence, Direct

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

Great, Movement, Importance

Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.
Karl Jaspers

Knowledge, Action, Scientific

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
Rudolf Arnheim

Thinking, Intuition, Invention

Therefore, the observation must be explicitly made: In the Middle East and in the Muslim world, suspicions linger concerning the objectives of the West and notably the US.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Made, Muslim, Middle

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