Observation Quotes

952 Observation quotes by 675 unique authors

[The] weakness of biological balance studies has aptly been illustrated by comparison with the working of a slot machine. A penny brings forth one package… — Unknown Author
Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings… — Stephen Lang
My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. — Martin Parr
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us. — Ori Gersht
My impressions of the Russian Revolution can be divided into two periods. The first period was when I showed deep sympathy. My second period is… — Chiang Kai-shek
It is a lamentable observation that because of the way our laws are skewed toward the plaintiff, London has become the libel capital of the… — Richard Dawkins
In the greater number of cases that have come under my observation, freedom has been a serious misfortune to the manumitted slave, and he has… — Roger B. Taney
I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its… — Peter Wright
It is of great importance to note these meteors, even the small ones, as very little is yet known of them; and every observation, if… — William John Wills
We learn this by the precepts that Jesus left. He observed that the people were looking outward, and assured them that the kingdom of God… — Elias Hicks
Surely it is time to examine into the meaning of words and the nature of things, and to arrive at simple facts, not received upon… — Frances Wright
We have seen that no religion stands on the basis of things known; none bounds its horizon within the field of human observation; and, therefore,… — Frances Wright
Even if it had not been possible to reproduce the disease in animals and consequently to verify the hypothesis, this simple observation would have been… — Charles Jules Henry Nicole
The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general… — Nassau William Senior
In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the… — Hideki Tojo
In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was… — George Grosz
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. — Claude Bernard
Even when one is doing well, one still worries that things might go badly again in the future. This is an old observation based on… — Wolfgang Schauble
My paintings and comedy have a lot in common. They are both improvisations based on observation. — Jonathan Winters
Being at NASA and having the access to both computing capability and satellite observation capability is kind of the ideal research situation to try to… — James Hansen
That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and… — Henry Louis Mencken
The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine… — Isaac Newton
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at the bottom. Each, in its utmost… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.… — Buddha
Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. — Amos Bronson Alcott

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