The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that… — Lucian Freud Copy Share Image
A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Obviously, therefore, we must be able to transcribe what is in us into our mental and objective consciousness, by establishing a relationship… — R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz Copy Share Image
The psychiatric interviewer is supposed to be doing three things: considering what the patient could mean by what he says; considering how… — Harry Stack Sullivan Copy Share Image
What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“His fingers are too long and when he talks he uses them to point out moments in his sentences. When he does,… — craig stone Copy Share Image
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Realism is a philosophy as opposed to a style. For me, painting is about observing and recording my existence as accurately as… — David Kassan Copy Share Image
Individually we can work on ourselves. By working on your own ego and developing truth, control, and an equitable inner dialogue, you… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
The kind of hope that I often think about…I understand above all as a state of mind, not a state of the… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
Schizophrenia --its nature, etiology, and the kind of therapy to use for it--remains one of the most puzzling of the mental illnesses.… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“But the inexplicability of the General's conduct dwelt much on her thoughts. That he was very particular in his eating, she had,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“I said that he was my superior in observation and deduction. If the art of the detective began and ended in reasoning… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
People talking about politics usually start from the ass end backwards in that they think you have a political agenda, and then… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The (Laetrile) efficacy tests...clinically in humans..(by) the US NCI...were obviously conducted so that a negative result could be formulated. The limited number… — Hans Alfred Nieper Copy Share Image
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Sovereignty inheres in the right to issue money. And the American sovereignty belongs by right to the people, and their representatives in… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings,… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“The saying goes that history repeats itself; personal histories do the same. We can gather the lessons of others’ lives through observation,… — Sheena Iyengar Copy Share Image
However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
“If I keep observing the uranium, which means a little more than keeping my eyes on the pot on my desk and… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Reading, reflection and time have convinced me that the interests of society require the observation of those moral precepts only in which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one… — Mary Wortley Montagu Copy Share Image
“Last night I thought about all that kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in… — Antoine De Jussieu Copy Share Image
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave,… — Roger B. Taney Copy Share Image
He who perceives in the spiritual world must know that at times Imaginations are assigned to him which at first he must… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
My art feels like it's real disobedient. I can fill notebooks with observations and maybe they find their way into the work… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
“The moon went slowly down in loveliness; she departed into the depth of the horizon, and long veil-like shadows crept up the… — H. Rider Haggard Copy Share Image
All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Man does not limit himself to seeing; he thinks and insists on learning the meaning of phenomena whose existence has been revealed… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression – by any medium necessary. The… — M. K. Asante Copy Share Image
My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory; it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results.… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image