To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide. — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful. — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There can be many sources of learning.. But Observation is the cheapest one..!! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition & observation are sources of knowledge. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
“But the time draws on for experience and observation to take the place of instruction: if” — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe. — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Chimps don't have language. Humans actively instruct others about how things should be done. Chimpanzees probably pick up cultural traditions by observation. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The world is evolving, and there is an acceptance of all beliefs, in my observation. — Omar Epps Copy Share Image
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place. — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes, the only way to learn something really well is to revert to the state of mind of a novice and reawaken… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
Thus to seek with ready-made concepts to penetrate into the inmost nature of things is to apply to the mobility of the… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that… — A. E. Housman Copy Share Image
If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Almost everyone... seems to be quite sure that the differences between the methodologies of history and of the natural sciences are vast.… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or intellectually or morally, as animals conceive at certain seasons… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
Satellite photography in the 1970's gave rise to the long-range weather forecast, a month at a time. This in turn gave rise… — Miles Kington Copy Share Image
...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind,… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations… — Tsung-Dao Lee Copy Share Image
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable — Robert Delaunay Copy Share Image
Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer. — Heinz von Foerster Copy Share Image
Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working… — Henry Moore Copy Share Image