Observer Quotes

253 quotes by 219 authors

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice. — Irving Babbitt
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana
General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character. — Buffalo Bill
I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events… — Andre Breton
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half… — Candace Bushnell
At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out… — Nick Cave
The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long. — Noam Chomsky
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world. — Deepak Chopra
Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists; the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be… — Deepak Chopra
I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas. — Ian Anderson
The possibility of interpretation lies in the identity of the observer with the observed. Each material thing has its celestial side; has its translation, through… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative. — Jeanette Winterson
To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to… — Wystan Hugh Auden
There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold. — William Shakespeare
What is this self-inside us, this silent observer, severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us, and urge us onto futile activity, and in the… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets… — Andre Gide
In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer. — Henri Poincare
Scientific method, although in its more refined forms it may seem complicated, is in essence remarkably simply. It consists in observing such facts as will… — Bertrand Russell

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