Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

The scientists are really scared. Their [global warming] observations over the past two or three years suggest that everything is happening a lot faster than… — Gwynne Dyer
Observation, not old age, brings wisdom. — Publilius Syrus
We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth. — Hippocrates
The future turns out to be something that you make instead of find. It isn't waiting for your arrival, either with an arrest warrant or… — Lewis H. Lapham
Theory can blind observation. — Carol Gilligan
When we play, we sense no limitations. In fact, when we are playing, we are usually unaware of ourselves. Self-observation goes out the window. We… — Lenore Terr
As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it,… — Junipero Serra
There is always some basic principle that will ultimately get the Republican party together. If my observations are worth anything, that basic principle is the… — Unknown Author
I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded… — A. E. Housman
As an engineer, I understood that the natural world operated according to fixed laws. Through my studies, I came to realize that there were, likewise,… — Charles Koch
Yet some of my friends tell me they understand 50 percent of what my mother says. Some say they understand 80 to 90 percent. Some… — Amy Tan
Frederick Turner comes across in his poems as a man of impressively broad experience, intellectual brilliance, and originality. … He’s at his best when he… — Unknown Author
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free. — Edward Snowden
The aura given out by a person or object is as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make in… — Lucian Freud
We [Panthers] have not said much about the homosexual at all, but we must relate to the homosexual movement because it is a real thing.… — Huey Newton
There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation, — Karl Popper
Certain periods in history suddenly lift humanity to an observation point where a clear light falls upon a world previously dark. — Anne Sullivan Macy
See what a hidden life the life of a good Christian is, and how much it is concealed from the eye and observation of the… — Matthew Henry
At the last dim horizon, we search among ghostly errors of observations for landmarks that are scarcely more substantial. The search will continue. The urge… — Edwin Powell Hubble
But I make the observation that no one of us would do things exactly alike. — David Dinkins
For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without… — Florence Nightingale
We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but observation… — Florence Nightingale
In nonviolent communication, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests. Then we… — Marshall B. Rosenberg
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself. — George Berkeley
How did I come to be an artist ? Endless curiosity, observation, research - and a great amount of joy in the thing — George Grosz

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