It is not a question of observation which propels mankind forward as if toward a looking glass of great magnitude; it is… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
“Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review,… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
After a lifetime of affectionate regard for dogs and many years of close observation and reflection, I have reached the conclusion that… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
“We shouldn't judge people. But there's a difference between judging and observing. And sometimes as we observe, our eyebrows become raised. Observation… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form… — Nathaniel Dorsky Copy Share Image
The human experience can almost be summed up in the observation that, whereas all decisions are of the past, all decisions are… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
By the respectable terms of the modern literary profession, novelists do not preach. And, in fact, there has probably not been a… — Claudia Roth Pierpont Copy Share Image
It is a commonplace observation that liberals believe in the perfectibility of man while conservatives believe in the endurance of original sin.… — William A. Henry III Copy Share Image
Art that means anything in the life of a community must bear some relation to current interpretations of the mystery of the… — Dora Russell Copy Share Image
Passing just lately over this lake, ... and examining this water next day, I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“The key to learning, to power, to having the final say in everything, is observation. By all means, be a storm inside,… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
I have argued that a religion or a philosophy cannot speak about facts of the world - if it does, it is… — Erik Naggum Copy Share Image
An ideologue - one who thinks ideologically - can't lose. He can't lose because his answer, his interpretation and his attitude have… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
Of all the systems of morality, ancient or modern which have come under my observation, none appears to me so pure as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The importance of group theory was emphasized very recently when some physicists using group theory predicted the existence of a particle that… — Irving Adler Copy Share Image
The result was that, if it happened to clear off after a cloudy evening, I frequently arose from my bed at any… — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
It is sometimes said that we should never believe a scientific theory until it is verified by experiment. But a famous astronomer… — Joao Magueijo Copy Share Image
I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“Observation" If I don't drive around the park, I'm pretty sure to make my mark. If I'm in bed each night by… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ… — John Calvin Copy Share Image
Econometrics may be defined as the quantitative analysis of actual economic phenomena based on the concurrent development of theory and observation, related… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
A man sees only what concerns him… How much more, then, it requires different intentions of the eye and of the mind… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from… — B C Forbes Copy Share Image
“There is no greater path than the act of listening, because the observer who listens can begin to see themselves as a… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
I was so furious I was actually dizzy with it. There were so many bitchy, sarcastic observations to make, I was having… — MaryJanice Davidson Copy Share Image
“I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and… — Tom Holland Copy Share Image
I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Man cannot be enlightened through any organization, creed, dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophical knowledge or psychological technique. He has… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
Intellect begins with the observation of nature, proceeds to memorize and classify the facts thus observed, and by logical deduction builds up… — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
