Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has… — Nhat Hanh
I believe the powers of observation in numbers of very young children to be quite wonderful for its closeness and accuracy. Indeed, I think that… — Charles Dickens
When sometimes, behind his back, they called him a tyrant, he merely smiled and uttered this profound observation: If some day I turn liberal, they… — Emile Zola
Why you were born and why you are living depend entirely on what you are getting out of this world and what you are giving… — Oscar Hammerstein II
How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and… — Benjamin Disraeli
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. — Niccolo Machiavelli
How many attractions for us have our passing fellows in the streets, both male and female, which our ethics forbid us to express, which yet… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to… — Michel de Montaigne
The qualities that made for success in a fighter-pilot seemed to be just those sturdy qualities that made for success in other professions; observation, initiative,… — Jim Bailey
A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it. — Jonathan Swift
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial… — Alfred Richard Orage
The luster of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure… — Samuel Johnson
That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. — Samuel Johnson
The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of… — George Santayana
Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state of clairvoyant observation, accessible or… — Wallace Stevens
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation… — Joseph Conrad
I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation. — Walter Pater
I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me… — Lois McMaster Bujold
Looking out of my window this lovely spring morning I see an azalea in full bloom. No, no! I do not see that; though that… — Charles Sanders Peirce
The idea that the universe is running down comes from a simple observation about machines. Every machine consumes more energy than it renders. — Jacob Bronowski
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations,… — James Bryant Conant
Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she… — John Lahr
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much… — Donna Tartt

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