If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Men who have excessive faith in their theories ... make poor observations, because they choose among the results of their experiments only… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
Now I'm writing about contemporary Los Angeles from memory. My process was to hang out, observe, research what I was writing about,… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Photography is an art of observation - it's about creating something extraordinary out of the ordinary. You choose a frame and then… — Elliott Erwitt Copy Share Image
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If the best way to learn to succeed is to fail as fast as possible, then the second-best way is to watch… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Genius and science have burst the limits of space, and few observations, explained by just reasoning, have unveiled the mechanism of the… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
None of this means, however, that a business or stock is an intelligent purchase simply because it is unpopular; a contrarian approach… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Actors are observers. They're trying to have an understanding of human sensibility. And how do you have that accurate observation if you… — Hayden Christensen Copy Share Image
The art of drawing conclusions from experiments and observations consists in evaluating probabilities and in estimating whether they are sufficiently great or… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
An actor rides in a bus or railroad train; he sees a movement and applies it to a new role. The whole… — Eleanor Robson Belmont Copy Share Image
We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Part of what we seek in Buddhism is the sense of quiet observation. We don't get so involved in a state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The drawings don't start with 'a beautiful mark'. It has to be a mark of something out there in the world. It… — William Kentridge Copy Share Image
I'm not...' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Were Patrick Henry to return to earth and look around on the vast economic order of the day, he might revise his… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Medical practice is not knitting and weaving and the labor of the hands, but it must be inspired with soul and be… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
“Observation had always meant more to me than interaction...My sole gift or talent, I believe now, was that places could impress themselves… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Our mind, by virtue of a certain finite, limited capability, is by no means capable of putting a question to Nature that… — Erwin Schrodinger Copy Share Image
The free market opens the way for men to operate at their moral best, and all observation confirms that the poor fare… — Leonard Read Copy Share Image
Do not allow yourself to suppress your thoughts. Instead, let the thoughts come before you and become a sort of observer. Start… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
…there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a… — James Burgh Copy Share Image
I don't think anyone who's had a casual observation of the Trump administration will suggest that their priority is going to be… — Erin O'Toole Copy Share Image
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will… — Edwin Powell Hubble Copy Share Image
“Spy planes, drone aircraft, satellites with cameras that can see from three hundred miles what you can see from a hundred feet.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is impossible for us, who live in the latter ages of the world, to make observations in criticism, morality, or in… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Let us consider the polarity of love and hate… Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Finding a really good weblog is like finding the peanuts in a box of Cracker Jacks. They are in there, but you… — Mark R. Woodward Copy Share Image
