Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
Christopher Lasch

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
Kenneth L. Pike

My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer.
Rick Wakeman

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.
Janet Suzman

Some statements concern the conscious states of the animal, what he is to himself as an inner life; others concern his original and acquired ways of response, his behavior, what he is an outside observer.
Edward Thorndike

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.
Peter Bichsel

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.
Aries Spears

The detached observer's view is one window on the world.
Kenneth L. Pike

The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
Bertrand Russell

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
Deepak Chopra

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.
Muhammad Iqbal

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.
Teilhard de Chardin

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
Alexander Pope

What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
Galen Rowell

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.
Anthony Holden

You can say I give you this information as a dispassionate observer.
Bill Goldberg