“Conscience is the virtue of observers and not of agents of action.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest. — Hippolyte Taine Copy Share Image
I am a committed observer. I like staying in the background and seeing what's going on. — Valerie Trierweiler Copy Share Image
We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe. — John Archibald Wheeler Copy Share Image
A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
One who can see without seeming to see-- That's an observer as good as three. — William Allingham Copy Share Image
“Observers trying to decide what a man is like look closely at his actions.” — Robert B. Cialdini Copy Share Image
Einstein, in the special theory of relativity, proved that different observers, in different states of motion, see different realities. — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
In modern physics, the universe is experienced as a dynamic inseparable whole which always includes the observer in an essential way. — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere,… — Lin-Manuel Miranda Copy Share Image
I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
We have preachers and savants who dilate endlessly on the sanctity of family and childhood but who tolerate a system in which… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
I'm a humanist. I'm an observer. I have a very scientific mind. I believe metaphysics and science absolutely blended are more the… — Meredith Brooks Copy Share Image
The soul is the observer who interprets and makes choices in a confluence of relationships. These relationships provide the background, setting, characters,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
The issue of gay marriage has reached the Supreme Court and observers are analyzing every detail to predict how each justice will… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
Those who approach their jobs and careers with enthusiasm always find plenty of opportunities, while those who complain about no one ever… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
I tried to talk to the ref but it is easier to get to see the Pope. If I'm in London again… — Gordon Strachan Copy Share Image
“We are astoundingly poor observers. And our introspection is useless on these issues: we believe we´re seeing the world just fine until… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
For many observers, a child who has known nothing but war, a child for whom the Kalashnikov is the only way to… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
My paintings are inspirational for they allow the observer to experience infinite viewpoints and perceptions. They are not abstract for they represent… — Freydoon Rassouli Copy Share Image
Outside of mathematics and logic, there are common sense truths, such as that it is snowing that normal observers, in a specified… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Among the authorities it is generally agreed that the Earth is at rest in the middle of the universe, and they regard… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
To those who feel that their values are THE values, the less controlled systems necessarily present a spectacle of "chaos," simply because… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
GOOD AS NEW was born out of the idea of writing a play where the stakes were high and the collisions were… — Peter Hedges Copy Share Image
Imagine an extrahuman observer looking at us. Such an extrahuman observer would be struck precisely by the uniformity of human languages, by… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Each of us plays four roles in relation to the brain. We lead, we inspire, we invent, and we use it. Most… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When a child speaks of a past life memory, the effects ripple far. At the center is the child, who is directly… — Carol Bowman Copy Share Image
Mind is dual, it always divides things into polar opposites: the conqueror and the conquered, the observer and the observed, the object… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky . The glory of science is not in a truth more… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Our initial sensory data are always "first derivatives," statements about differences which exist among external objects or statements about changes which occur… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
I'm an amused observer. I don't bet or gamble; that's the worst thing. — Pablo Francisco Copy Share Image
Passion, I've found, is not so attractive to the observer as to the participants. — Susan Dunlap Copy Share Image
