“There are traps built into any kind of knowledge gained from observation.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
There may be many ways of learning... But observation is the cheapest one..! — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding. — Stanisław I Leszczyński Copy Share Image
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All life is a revelation through images and observation. Discovery can be through the eyes of another.” — Noa Daniels Copy Share Image
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men. — James Smithson Copy Share Image
He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous… — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
I think I have a very detailed sense of observation. I am interested in the details of people's lives and what information… — Julian Fellowes Copy Share Image
Several country towns, within my observation, have at least a dozen taverns. Here the time, the money, the health and the modesty,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO… — Cecily McMillan Copy Share Image
Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, theory and practice, it's a mixture of intuition and observation, hypothesis and… — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
Science is composed of laws which were originally based on a small, carefully selected set of observations, often not very accurately measured… — Richard Hamming Copy Share Image
In the collaborative process, you create a real intimacy; everybody ends up sharing personal stories and personal observations and their philosophies, their… — Lynn Shelton Copy Share Image
Please remain calm: The Earth will heal itself - Climate is beyond our power to control...Earth doesn't care about governments or their… — Robert B. Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Primary causes are unknown to us; but are subject to simple and constant laws, which may be discovered by observation, the study… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
“The extracellular genesis of cells in animals seemed to me, ever since the publication of the cell theory [of Schwann], just as… — Robert Remak Copy Share Image
It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive,… — Adolphe Quetelet Copy Share Image
The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observatory till the star he wishes… — James Pollard Espy Copy Share Image
Although my view is a world-wide one and my area of observation is Europe, the nation closest to my heart is, understandably,… — Pentti Linkola Copy Share Image
There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Science as we now understand the word is of later birth. If its germinal origin may be traced to the early period… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“I have two righteous addictions. Firstly are my observations. Secondly, my imaginations.” — T.D. Otis Copy Share Image
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning. — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“But if I make an observation, what is to determine which state I am in? This means that someone else has to… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott Copy Share Image
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
“Negativity will always play with the mind while positivity is chosen by those who have the courage to overcome.” — Jackson Taviri Copy Share Image