Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not… — Jeff Ross
Look for what's missing. Many advisors can tell a President how to improve what's proposed or what's gone amiss. Few are able to see what… — Donald Rumsfeld
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. — Marilyn vos Savant
And this thesis is somewhat connected with general social and political observations, because it establishes the fact that the number of consumers is considerably larger… — Hjalmar Schacht
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can… — Erwin Schrodinger
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of… — Walter Scott
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. — George Bernard Shaw
To become an academic expert takes years of studying. Academic experts are experts in how and what others have done. They use case studies and… — Simon Sinek
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. — Samuel Smiles
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail,… — Adam Smith
It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at… — Laurence Sterne
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. — Wallace Stevens
Observation is an old man's memory. — Jonathan Swift
The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is… — Henry David Thoreau
It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain,… — Polly Toynbee
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. — Bill Vaughan
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and… — Abraham Verghese
My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely… — George Washington
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by… — Paul Wellstone
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. — Tennessee Williams
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. — Walter Winchell
No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her… — Naomi Wolf
The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own. — Virginia Woolf
Less is only more where more is no good. — Frank Lloyd Wright
Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. — Ron Wyden

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