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Observation, not old age, brings wisdom. -- Publilius Syrus
Observation - activity of both eyes and ears. -- Horace Mann
Observation capitalizes inspiration. -- Alex Faickney Osborn
Observation always involves theory. -- Edwin Powell Hubble
Observation is an old man's memory. -- Jonathan Swift
Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs. -- Carl Sagan
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. -- Claude Bernard
Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life. -- George Meredith
Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form -- Andrew Loomis
Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method. -- Richard P. Feynman
In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared. -- Louis Pasteur
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk. -- Robert Baden-Powell
Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools. -- Francis Bacon
Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another. -- Amit Ray
The two fulcra of medicine are reason and observation. Observation is the clue to guide the physician in his thinking. -- Giorgio Baglivi
Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science. -- Bridget Riley
Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while. -- John Green
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. -- Marcus Aurelius
The entire annals of Observation probably do not elsewhere exhibit so extraordinary a verification of any theoretical conjecture adventured on by the human spirit! -- John Pringle Nichol
There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. -- Denis Diderot
The proverb says that 'The answer to a fool is silence'. Observation, however, indicates that almost any other answer will have the same effect in the long run. -- Idries Shah
Observation is like a muscle. It grows stronger with use and atrophies without use. Exercise your observation muscle and you will become a more powerful decoder of the world around you. -- Joe Navarro
Observation is like a piece of glass, which, as a mirror, must be very smooth, and must be very carefully polished, in order that it may reflect the image pure and undistorted. -- Justus von Liebig
From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review. -- Isaac Asimov
We shouldn't judge people. But there's a difference between judging and observing. And sometimes as we observe, our eyebrows become raised. Observation with an attitude, that's what I like to call it. -- C. JoyBell C.
Observation is the telescope of human nature. It is the tele of watching distantly. But taking an action is the result of Self-regulation and interference. It is going beyond boundaries in aiming to achieve a considerable ambitions. -- Mohammed Rasmi
Why should men leave great fortunes to their children? If this is done from affection, is it not misguided affection? Observation teaches that, generally speaking, it is not well for the children that they should be so burdened. -- Andrew Carnegie
It is a trite but true Observation, that Examples work more forcibly on the Mind than Precepts: and if this be just in what is odious and blameable, it is more strongly so in what is amiable and praiseworthy. -- Henry Fielding
Observation of my life to date shows that the larger the number for whom I work, the more positively effective I become. Thus, it is obvious that if I work always and only for all humanity, I will be optimally effective. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Every 12 years Jupiter returns to the same position in the sky; every 370 days it disappears in the fire of the Sun in the evening to the west, 30 days later it reappears in the morning to the east...[Observation in 4th century B.C.] -- Gan De
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life. -- Henry Moore
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. -- Will Rogers
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. -- Benjamin Disraeli
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. -- Alexander Pope
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer. -- Billy West
Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. -- Stephen Hawking
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. -- Henry Ford
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth. -- Alexis Carrel
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. -- Isaac Watts
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. -- Thomas Huxley
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Observation #8: Boys are icky. Do not even get me started on the state of the bathroom. I'm thinking of calling in a haz-mat team. Seriously. -- Kate Brian
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism. -- Alfred Richard Orage
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. -- Maria Montessori
There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. -- Will Rogers
There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language. -- William Osler
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. -- Anne Sullivan
We must trust to nothing but facts: These are presented to us by Nature, and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. -- Antoine Lavoisier
It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men--the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid. -- Samuel Smiles
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. -- Wallace Stevens
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision. -- Bruce Barton
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. -- Edward Abbey
A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it. -- Frederick Douglass
We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. -- Maria Montessori
It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things. -- Anne Sullivan
Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere. -- Jeff Ross
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world. -- Franz Kafka
For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights. -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Judging by informal observation, most young Americans burn up their spare time buffing their emotional IQ and self-esteem with social media and non-stop texting. That's great for eye-thumb coordination, but what about the satisfaction of actually making something? -- Seth Shostak
To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them. -- Elliott Erwitt
A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement. -- Erwin Schrodinger
Early in life I learned, just through observation, that right always wins out over wrong. If a person has good intentions in his heart and wants to do the right thing, then there are certain ways that any obstacle can be overcome. -- Monte Irvin
I don't bill myself as an atheist but as a naturalist. Naturalism is a belief system. A lot of scientists bristle at that. We all have to believe we can find the truth. Evidence is my guide. I rely on observation, experimentation and verification. -- Greg Graffin
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation. -- Walter Scott
We must trust to nothing but facts: these are presented to us by nature and cannot deceive. We ought, in every instance, to submit our reasoning to the test of experiment, and never to search for truth but by the natural road of experiment and observation. -- Antoine Lavoisier
When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, 'I want you to emerge stronger from this.' My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded. -- Rudy Giuliani
My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly. -- Mark Strong
Hope clouds observation. -- Frank Herbert
Theory can blind observation. -- Carol Gilligan
Art demands constant observation. -- Vincent Van Gogh
Experiment is fundamentally only induced observation. -- Claude Bernard
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation -- Max Euwe
Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth. -- Peter Medawar
Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation. -- Max Euwe
Criticism is not construction, it is observation. -- George William Curtis
We learn by observation, imitation and repetition. -- Denis Waitley
Averages ... seduce us away from minute observation. -- Florence Nightingale
Let observation with extended observation observe extensively. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Every traveler should make their own observation. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation, -- Karl Popper
Reality gets created through acts of observation -- Fred Alan Wolf
All data are filtered, observation is necessarily 'theory-laden'. -- Norwood Russell Hanson
Association with human beings lures one into self-observation. -- Franz Kafka
Innocent and infinite are the pleasures of observation. -- Henry James
Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding. -- Amit Ray
Every commonplace or trite observation is not a truism. -- Charles Lamb
I believe that you can always learn from observation. -- Tamara Tunie
The writer has three sources: imagination, observation, and experience -- William Faulkner
Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate. -- Edmond de Goncourt
In the philosophic sense, observation shows and experiment teaches. -- Claude Bernard
Art is more to do with observation than invention. -- Michael Craig-Martin
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
When you make an observation, you have an obligation. -- M. K. Asante
Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning -- Bertrand Russell
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. -- Louis Pasteur
We cannot empty the mind by thinking. Only by observation. -- Robert Adams
A rocket is an experiment; a star is an observation. -- Jose Bergamin
People learn more from observation that they do from conversation. -- Will Rogers
Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation. -- Arnold Lobel
Genius is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful. -- Susanna Clarke
Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought? -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The bearings of this observation lays in the application of it. -- Charles Dickens
The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment... not authority. -- Thomas Huxley
Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology. -- Ken Rockwell
Let observation with observant view, Observe mankind from China to Peru. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Knowledge is observation and is given to those who would look. -- L. Ron Hubbard
My father was an obsessive bird-watcher. The genes of observation passed down. -- Martin Parr
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable. -- Robert Delaunay
Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable -- Robert Delaunay
The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide. -- Raymond Williams
Every traveler has their unique observation of the place they have been. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody. -- Spike Lee
It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. -- Alexander Hamilton
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy. -- Willard Van Orman Quine

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