My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder… — David Gray Copy Share Image
“You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it—or my observation of it—is temporary?” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention. — Percy Williams Bridgman Copy Share Image
Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed — John Searle Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I go, it's me and me. Half of me living my life, the other half watching me live it.” — Sandra Cisneros (Author Copy Share Image
One of the first observations to make in conversation is the state, or the character, and the education of the person to… — Suzanne Curchod Copy Share Image
To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It… — Wilhelm von Humboldt Copy Share Image
The issue of racism and racial prejudice. It is very, very difficult to discuss. It is difficult to discuss the issue of… — Thabo Mbeki 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
When there are conflicts of observation, when experiments cannot be replicated, scientists may then retreat to a study of the various specific… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dustcloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
There are at bottom but two possible religions--that which rises in the moral nature of man, and which takes shape in moral… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza 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
“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them… — John Graunt 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
The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
Certainly I do not wish that instead of these masters I had read baby books, written down to children, and with such… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
We continually forget that the sphere of morals is the sphere of action, that speculation in regard to morality is but observation… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“A careful observation of ourselves would immensely simplify life, and would make many things much clearer to us.” — Lyubov Dostoyevskaya Copy Share Image
Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Before I went to bed, I sat up till 2 a-clock in my chamber, reading of Mr. Hooke's Microscopical Observations, the most… — Samuel Pepys Copy Share Image
It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition. — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
Observation #8: Boys are icky. Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I'm thinking of calling in… — Kate Brian Copy Share Image
A maxim is a conclusion upon observation of matters of fact, and is merely speculative; a "principle" carries knowledge within itself, and… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The future is an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper, and if you have the courage of your own thought… — Lewis H. Lapham 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
Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a show'r. While rain depends, the pensive cat gives o'er… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The leading idea which is present in all our [geological] researches, and which accompanies every fresh observation, the sound of which to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You should not only have attention to everything, but a quickness of attention, so as to observe at once all the people… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
An observation, strictly, is only a sensation. Nobody means that we should reject everything but sensations. But as soon as we go… — Harold Jeffreys Copy Share Image
It seems a shallow observation, but... the Tory Conference are not an attractive lot, are they? I mean, if all those people… — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
My observation is that the bias against female child is deeply ingrained, especially in certain parts of India and that it's not… — Abhinav Shukla Copy Share Image
Very often I hear talk about female literature, or femininity in literature. It's a categorization I am not sure about. Maybe there… — Luljeta Lleshanaku Copy Share Image