Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events,… — Ansel Adams
I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in… — Thomas Jefferson
I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind of… — Charles M. Schulz
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. — Bridget Riley
Censure is willingly indulged, because it always implies some superiority: men please themselves with imagining that they have made a deeper search, or wider survey… — Samuel Johnson
An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that… — Andrei Tarkovsky
If you've got somebody's aspects in your experience that you don't like, there's only one reason they're there. You keep evoking them with your attention… — Esther Hicks
I believe it is no wrong Observation, that Persons of Genius, and those who are most capable of Art, are always fond of Nature, as… — Alexander Pope
Years of observation and thought have given increasing strength to the belief that we Jews stand apart from you gentiles, that a primal duality breaks… — Maurice Samuel
She's one of those third year girls who gripe my liver... You know, American college kids. They come over here to take their third year… — Gene Kelly
I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives… — Vida Goldstein
In brief, we have the new paradigm where simulation and programs have replaced theory and observation, where government largely determines the nature of scientific activity,… — Richard Lindzen
My observation is that women are merely waiting for their husbands to assume leadership. — James Dobson
In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared. — Louis Pasteur
The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an… — Friedrich Schiller
The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of… — Plato
The theory of evolution by natural selection is an ecological theory-founded on ecological observation by perhaps the greatest of all ecologists. It has been adopted… — Unknown Author
Good science requires distinguishing between "felt knowledge" and knowledge arising out of testable observations. "I am sure" is a mental sensation, not a testable conclusion.… — Robert Burton
Eratosthenes declares that it is no longer necessary to inquire as to the cause of the overflow of the Nile, since we know definitely that… — Unknown Author
It is not therefore the business of philosophy, in our present situation in the universe, to attempt to take in at once, in one view,… — Colin Maclaurin
Whether we like it or not, quantification in history is here to stay for reasons which the quantifiers themselves might not actively approve. We are… — J. H. Plumb
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and… — Gautama Buddha
Get growing. Back yourself and make mistakes. It's your mistakes and observations that are your greatest tutors. — Costa Georgiadis
It's not just about facts, information and technical know how... Gardens are about time, observation and intuition. — Costa Georgiadis
Do not believe what you have heard Do not believe in tradition because it is handed down many generations Do not believe in anything that… — Gautama Buddha

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