“G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598” — Gurdieff Copy Share Image
Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
“Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares - Where observation is concerned, chance favours only the… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
“I was beginning to think that Simon just had a bad case of OCD, ADD, and PMS. With a little BS and… — Dannika Dark Copy Share Image
I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation. — Marianne Elliott Copy Share Image
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability. — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out… — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a… — Gwynne Dyer Copy Share Image
“The form of observation , which underlines all speech and language development, always expresses a peculiar spiritual character , a special way… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
[John] Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of… — John Trudell 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
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 indispensability argument seeks to assimilate the epistemology of metaphysical statements to the epistemology of statements that are obviously empirical. I think… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
To the scientist, nature is always and merely a 'phenomenon,' not in the sense of being defective in reality, but in the… — Robin G. Collingwood Copy Share Image
The chicken noticed that the farmer came every day to feed it. It predicted that the farmer would continue to bring food… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Rosanne Daryl Thomas's tale of her enchantment by bees is a delight to read. It also contains close observations of the natural… — Janet Lembke Copy Share Image
The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other… — Jim Bailey Copy Share Image
It is the modern feminists who are the real male chauvinists, lusting for reproductive freedom (sexual irresponsibility) like playboys and demanding empowerment,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult… — William Osler Copy Share Image
An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general. — Stefan Kanfer Copy Share Image
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and… — John Ford Copy Share Image
“Observation is a great joy.” To write one’s observations, record such wonderings, the greatest joy of all.” — Megan Marshall Copy Share Image
Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
I am a firm believer, that without speculation there is no good and original observation. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought. — Marina Tsvetaeva Copy Share Image
Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe. — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science. — Auguste Comte Copy Share Image
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have… — Solomon Northup Copy Share Image