Top 959 Observation Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
Explore popular Observation quotes.
Last updated on April 18, 2025.
We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.
In the fields of observation chance favors only those minds which are prepared.
He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men.
I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation.
It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.
You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.
Who is respectable when thinking himself alone and free from observation will be so before the eye of all the world.
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
observation of realities has never, to put it mildly, been one of the strengths of economic development theory.
Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.
There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.
Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."
The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.
Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually.
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
It's on the strength of observation and reflection that one finds a way. So we must dig and delve unceasingly.
The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.
The truth is funny. Honest discovery, observation, and reaction is better than contrived invention.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
But my observation has been, certainly in the news business, you've got to give 110 percent.
[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.
In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.
It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.
Talent is a long patience, and originality an effort of will and intense observation.
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
In my experience and observation, senior appointments are rarely based entirely on merit.
Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
All genius is simple. It involves close observation and a momentous act of self trust.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind?
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.
I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.
An independant reality in the ordinary physical sense can neither be ascribed to the phenomenon nor to the agencies of observation.
Talents of the novelist: ... observation of character, analysis of emotion, people's feelings, personal relations.
it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.
Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
I'm a good teacher and am great at observation and picking out what's wrong and fixing it.
When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.
children are made of eyes and ears, and nothing, however minute, escapes their microscopic observation.
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.
An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.
Learning about and from your customers isn't always easy and requires a commitment to continual observation.
The most important thing for me is the direct observation of nature in its light-filled existence.
My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.
I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.
Presence of mind, penetration, fine observation, are the sciences of women; ability to avail themselves of these is their talent.
Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.
I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.
Sir,"she said,"you are no gentleman!" An apt observation,"he answered airily."And, you, Miss, are no lady.
