“So much of life was about noticing things, he thought. It was about observation.” — James Runcie Copy Share Image
Observations often tell you more about the observer than the observed. — Chris Geiger Copy Share Image
Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“I know he’s been through hell and back, and yet somehow the observation rubs me the wrong way. “Well, you’ve looked better.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
It is a common observation that those who dwell continually upon their expectations are apt to become oblivious to the requirements of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are. — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
“[D]avid began to argue, with the whining intonations of German astonishment, [...] that everyone did it.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations. — Judith Anderson Copy Share Image
Yes, I am very lucky, but I have a little theory about this. I have noticed through experience and observation that providence,… — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
In the collecting of evidence upon any medical subject, there are but three sources from which we can hope to obtain it:… — Astley Cooper Copy Share Image
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity… — Polly Toynbee Copy Share Image
... yet there is a difference between scientific and artistic observation. The scientist observes to turn away and generalize; the artist observes… — Edmund Blair Bolles Copy Share Image
Whatever their limitations, Freud and Marx developed complex and subtle theories of human nature grounded in their observation of individual and social… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you… — Stephen Lang Copy Share Image
...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“...I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
I would say basically the commonplace observation that kids aren't going to earn as much as their parents is now is a… — Raj Chetty Copy Share Image
Always make a note of what you are doing and where it leads. By and by, you will become aware of that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
The magical descriptions of Italy and hilarious observations about love, travel, natives and foreigners in Love in Idleness are but a few… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
Women speak an average 18,000 more words a day than men do. And there may be a genetic reason, it may be… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Before an observation is made, an object exists in all possible states simultaneously. To determine which state the object is in, we… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
And first, it seems not at all probable, That if the Omniscient Author of Nature knew that the study of his Works… — Robert Boyle Copy Share Image