You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations.
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men.
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuitive knowledge has yielded to cold unproductive thinking.
Only listen to the observations of the enlightened because everyone else is self-centered, egocentric and bound by the net of desire.
I carry some kind of consideration and weight and observations about what is going on in the world, but I don't go to execute it.
The real reason why general relativity is widely accepted is because it made predictions that were borne out by experimental observations.
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
InSight will get to the 'core' of the nature of the interior and structure of Mars, well below the observations we've been able to make from orbit or the surface.
From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.
To voice something you're feeling and put observations into words with another person who is totally present is a creative act embodying soul and love.
I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.
The power of generalizing ideas, of drawing comprehensive conclusions from individual observations, is the only acquirement, for an immortal being, that really deserves the name of knowledge.
One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis.
In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
Experimental observations are only experience carefully planned in advance, and designed to form a secure basis of new knowledge.
I've always felt you don't have to be completely detached, emotionally uninvolved to make precise observations. There's nothing wrong with feeling great empathy for your subjects.
My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that they gave a better account of themselves than we did.
....there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
To appropriately respond to an emergency requires a very clear mind, to cooly analyze what the observations are and how to fix it.
The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.
Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observations suggest will need no pointing out.
I strongly believe in the existence of God, based on intuition, observations, logic, and also scientific knowledge.
Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.
She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.
While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.
Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.
Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.
The curious defiled past him, after squeezing the Presidential fingers into the room, and settled either on the sofa or chairs or remained standing for protracted observations.
Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
I can always go back to Jane Austen. 'Mansfield Park' is full of wise aphorisms and relevant observations of people.
It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment
In fact, evolution became in a sense a scientific religion; almost all scientists have accepted it and many are prepared to "bend" their observations to fit in with it.
I have no idea why, and this is others' observations of me - I tend to be in the realm of these very complicated personalities. I guess I enjoy corralling that.
The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.
Look ... first and foremost, I'm a scientist. That means it's my responsibility to make observations and gather evidence before forming a hypothesis, not vice versa.
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 way I'm best equipped to do that.
Extraordinary observations require extraordinary evidence to make them believable.
Data adds concrete information to a teacher's observations and intuition, but it will never replace experience, personal relationships, and cultural understanding.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
I think the New Aesthetic is a series of observations. I think most of the trouble people have had with it comes from a misunderstanding of it as a movement.
Numerous observations made upon fevers, somnambulisms, and other human maladies, seem to prove that the moon does exercise some mysterious influence upon man.
Whatever I learned reading 'Scientific American,' nothing can finally compete with your own observations.
Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!
From my personal observations, the Spanish style of play, with a large number of passes, is somewhat similar to the Brazilian one.
Of course, life experience changes and adds to writing. And observations change too, where you put yourself in relation to other people.
In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.
Evolution is a fact. It is the best explanation of what is known from observations. It's a theory as powerful as the theory of gravity.
Throughout my career as a songwriter, I've had a knack for writing songs that were about me and my life experiences and observations.
It's likely that only vibrations of love and gratitude appear in nature, and observations of nature shows this to be true.
Conclusions from observations are unreliable, only the mind can come nearer to to the truth. Thus, in some ways, philosophy is more important than science.
Space and time may have a structure as intricate as the fauna of a rich ecosystem, but on a scale far larger than the horizon of our observations.
In NVC, no matter what words others may use to express themselves, we simply listen for their observations, feelings, needs, and requests.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.
Science is not infallible, but it has something religion lacks: a process of testing claims against real-world observations.
It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
All observations of life are harsh, because life is. I lament that fact, but I cannot change it.
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