Observation Quotes

Observation Quote of the day

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.

He grows daily more capable of following any inspiration without technical effort, and also of letting inspiration come to him through meticulous observation.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

I know too much from personal observation from how the poor and working classes live to be satisfied with a system which makes their lives one unceasing round of toil, deprivation and anxiety.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.

My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.

By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

No one trusts a model except the man who wrote it; everyone trusts an observation, except the man who made it.

The greater part of our daily actions are the result of hidden motives which escape our observation.

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

In natural science the principles of truth ought to be confirmed by observation.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

I find, by close observation, that the mothers are the levers which move in education. The men talk about it . . . but the women work most for it.

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.

If you've got a religious belief that withers in the face of observations of the natural world, you ought to rethink your beliefs - rethinking the world isn't an option.

The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.

Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose.

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.

Reality gets created through acts of observation

The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.

We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation.

This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting a law passed.

From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

...separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

I always notice flowers.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration.

An artist is an explorer. He has to begin by self-discovery and by observation of his own procedure. After that he must not feel under any constraint.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.