“There was an omnivorous intellect that won him the family sobriquet of Walking Encyclopedia.” — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . .… — Frances Harper Copy Share Image
The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind)… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction. — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes. — Nicolas Bentley Copy Share Image
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden… — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for apprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
But I have been watching the crows since childhood. I loved the colour on its face. It can count up to seven… — R. K. Laxman Copy Share Image
I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
As soon as I observed myself from outside myself, I recognized and understood that I had a long-standing habit of keeping an… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
It was noted long ago that the front row of burlesque houses was occupied predominantly by bald-headed men. In fact, such a… — Harry S.N. Greene 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
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
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
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
“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
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
Whenever I work on a part, I look at the world through the filter of the character and I pick things they… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
“Night-time moves us in mysterious ways. Darkness brings to light things that we would not otherwise notice in daylight.” — Felisa Tan Copy Share Image
My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation. — Jonathan Winters Copy Share Image
“People were so easy to predict if one only paid attention to their lips. Most people told their stories there without even… — Molly Collier Copy Share Image
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. — Robert Baden-Powell Copy Share Image
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
I cannot resist making the observation that some people use statistics as a drunk uses a lamppost - more to lean on… — Alfred E. Perlman Copy Share Image
“Every discovery in science and art, is due to the trained power of seeing things ... Keep your eyes open, your ears… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Cooking is an observation-based process that you can't do if you're so completely focused on a recipe. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I wouldn't even dare read the Torah, let alone attempt a witty observation on the Torah. — Charles Grodin Copy Share Image
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“It was truly an abomination of nature that one always found the most comfortable spot in the bed five minutes before one… — Mia Ryan Copy Share Image
They (teenage boys)don’t really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation. — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself. — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
