Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world,… — Franz Kafka
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all. — Daniel Kahneman
The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations. — Mindy Kaling
Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to… — Arthur Keith
Physics tells us observations can't be predicted absolutely. Rather, there's a range of possible observations each with a different probability. — Robert Lanza
It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody. — Spike Lee
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. — C.S. Lewis
Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them… — Anne Sullivan Macy
Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I… — David Mitchell
I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but… — Maria Mitchell
I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the… — Maria Mitchell
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through… — Maria Montessori
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through… — Alice Munro
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge. — Alfred Nobel
Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or… — Bill Nye
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an… — William Osler
The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to… — Sarah Palin
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. — Alexander Pope
I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it. — Paula Poundstone
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy. — Willard Van Orman Quine
Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation. — Samuel Richardson
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee… — Will Rogers
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. — Will Rogers

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