Observations Quotes

266 Observations quotes by 221 unique authors

A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not… — Henry David Thoreau
If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity. — Phyllis Bottome
Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations. — Niccolo Machiavelli
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to… — Michel de Montaigne
The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere, so that his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of… — George Santayana
I have all my life been on my guard against the information conveyed by the sense of hearing -- it being one of my earliest… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations,… — James Bryant Conant
Cuvier had preceded Lamarck in specifying the kinds and degrees of variation, which his own observations and critical judgment of the reports of others led… — Richard Owen
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the… — Jerry Spinelli
Based on observations of the policies of my own government, I viewed this action as an acceptable option. — Timothy McVeigh
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own… — Nicholson Baker
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking. — Helene Deutsch
It is a shock to us in the twentieth century to discover, from observations science has made, that the fundamental mechanisms of life cannot be… — Michael Behe
It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world… — Michael Behe
For the Members of the Assembly having before their eyes so many fatal Instances of the errors and falshoods, in which the greatest part of… — Robert Hooke
The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I'm wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something… — Ray Dalio
I think there's value in experience and observations that link past to present. — Bill Kurtis
Music is important. It says things you heart can't say any other way, and in a language everyone speaks. Music crosses borders, turns smiles into… — Dan Rather
If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are… — Jane Smiley
I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have… — Jane Goodall
Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that… — Richard Rosen
Measurements, observations, descriptions can only be considered scientific when they are independently confirmed by other people. — Jose Padilha
Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that… — Jose Padilha
Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been published, because it… — Henry Lipson
From my observations, it would seem that the core message of most major religions is right, just and pure. For this reason I can not… — Derek R. Audette

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