Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

...Listen to your own thoughts and feelings very carefully, be aware of your observations, and learn to value them. When you're a teenager—and even when… — Jennifer Donnelly
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance… — Rudyard Kipling
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because… — Stephen Hawking
I was so furious I was actually dizzy with it. There were so many bitchy, sarcastic observations to make, I was having a sarcasm stroke.… — MaryJanice Davidson
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased… — Stephen Jay Gould
My very photogenic mother died in a freak accident (picnic, lightning) when I was three, and, save for a pocket of warmth in the darkest… — Vladimir Nabokov
The most necessary task of civilization is to teach people how to think. It should be the primary purpose of our public schools. The mind… — Thomas A. Edison
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by… — Evelyn Underhill
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks.… — David Nicholls
Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine. — Ellen Hopkins
Can you define "plan" as "a loose sequence of manifestly inadequate observations and conjectures, held together by panic, indecision, and ignorance"? If so, it was… — Jonathan Stroud
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...]… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
There is no ideal in observation. When you have an ideal, you cease to observe, you are then merely approximating the present to the idea,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
What do you think of this" he asked, indicating the painting nearby. She gave him an odd look. "I think it's an enormous painting of… — Sarah MacLean
Sucking your thumb without a blanket is like eating a cone without ice cream! — Charles M. Schulz
I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of… — Jane Austen
The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable man;… — Thomas Mann
Then he continues his rant,saying, "And even if I didn't know them, I know their type." "And what type is that?" she asks,leaning foward in… — Emily Giffin
The schizophrenic is drowning in the same waters in which the mystic swims with delight. Edgar Cayce made the same observation in his readings — Joseph Campbell
If Lacan presumes that female homosexuality issues from a disappointed heterosexuality, as observation is said to show, could it not be equally clear to the… — Judith Butler
I believe that my observations have always led me to find that the so-called realist moves about the world with a closed mind, ringed as… — Joseph Roth
A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life… — George Eliot
Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark.… — Melina Marchetta
it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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