Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

It is a little out of touch to presume that someone wants to follow your every observation and insight over the course of hundreds of… — Christopher Bollen
In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him. — Alexis Denisof
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory. — James A. Garfield
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. — Benjamin Disraeli
The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears to hear it. — Henry David Thoreau
Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but… — William Hazlitt
A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint. — Winston Churchill
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision of judgment, just… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations. — Aristotle
Let observation with extensive view, Survey mankind from China to Peru; Remark each anxious toil, each eager strife, And watch the busy scenes of crowded… — Samuel Johnson
The essential fault of surrealism is that it invents without discovering. To make a clam play an accordion is to invent not to discover. The… — Wallace Stevens
I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well. — William Feather
Art demands constant observation. — Vincent Van Gogh
Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen. — Rainer Maria Rilke
To be able to observe with a stranger's eye helps one to see with an artist's eye. What alienates us inspires. — Jean Rostand
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in… — Charles Horton Cooley
It is probable that there is no one thing that it is of eminent importance for a child to learn. The true object of juvenile… — William Godwin
But when reflexion begins to play upon these objects... like some trick of magic each object is loosed into a group of impressions - colour,… — Walter Pater
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. — Isaac Watts
I made a promise to keep a watch over myself, to remain master of myself, so that I might become a sure observer. — Paul Gauguin
The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and… — Madame de Stael
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in… — Samuel Smiles
The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation. — Igor Stravinsky
Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching. — Susan Sontag

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