Observation Quotes

Observation capitalizes inspiration.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

“Not everything that is seen is visible.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I observe life more than I live it.”

— Jayme K

“Poets make the best topographers.”

— W.G. Hoskins

“The visible emerged from the invisible.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

A wise man will look listen and observe.

— Anonymous

Observation is an old man's memory.

— Jonathan Swift

I blog; therefore, I am.

— Mark R. Woodward

“I like The Eiffel Tower because it looks like steel and lace.”

— Natalie Lloyd

I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark.

— Euan Uglow

Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.

— Pascual Jordan

True freedom is the ability to observe without resistance.

— EwshyCrazyness

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

— Robert Adams

“When you are responsible for a life you basically loose yours.”

— jacksin taviri

“example of the confused mixture of logic and observation”

— Anonymous

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

— Robert Delaunay

The world is evolving, and there is an acceptance of all beliefs, in my observation.

— Omar Epps

Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass,…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Friendship hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and…

— Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

It has been said that self-respect is the gate of heaven, and the most cursory observation shows that a degree of reserve…

— Henry Theodore Tuckerman

Those writers who lie on the watch for novelty can have little hope of greatness; for great things cannot have escaped former…

— Samuel Johnson

“Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.”

— Frank Herbert

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if…

— Auguste Comte

Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of…

— Susan Sontag

No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be…

— Allen W. Wood

It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just…

— Henry Fielding

You folks like TV, you watch a lot of TV? There's a show right here on CBS, it's a huge hit. It's…

— David Letterman

I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the consciousness, that it rewards intelligence…

— John Green

I believe in having a few pupils at one time as it requires a constant alert observation of each individual in order…

— Bruce Lee

There are a lot of things that make up a performance, a lot of technical things. It isn't always just about pulling…

— Robert Carlyle

I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely…

— Len Goodman

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely new branch…

— John N. Bahcall

“..he went to the kitchen to get a banana; after each mouthful he pulled back a fraction the four or five strips…

— Jean Echenoz

Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a…

— Jonathan Ive

That food nourishes, sleep refreshes, and fire warms us; that to sow in the seed-time is the way to reap in the…

— George Berkeley

During the last two centuries and a half, physical knowledge has been gradually made to rest upon a basis which it had…

— Augustus De Morgan

The Man of Genius may at the same time be, indeed is commonly, an Artist, but the two are not to be…

— Henry David Thoreau

The kind of knowledge which is supported only by observations and is not yet proved must be carefully distinguished from the truth;…

— Leonhard Euler

Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its…

— Evelyn Underhill