Definition of Observer

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Observer

One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer.

One who keeps any law, custom, regulation, rite, etc.; one who conforms to anything in practice.

One who fulfills or performs; as, an observer of his promises.

A sycophantic follower.

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Observer Quotations

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

I am an observer, I like to watch people. I am into psychology and people - how they act and such.
Dane Cook

A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
Alexander Pope

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

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 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

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
Irving Babbitt

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
Arthur Conan Doyle

I was an observer. I liked to listen rather than openly express myself. This trait is something that I've retained over the years.
Giorgio Armani

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
Wallace Stevens

Observer Translations

observer in German is Beobachter
observer in Spanish is observador
observer in Swedish is iakttagare

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