Top 967 Observed Quotes & Sayings

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

The hypotheses we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this: our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed.

I have not observed mens honesty to increase with their riches.

It is the theory that decides what can be observed.

No matter how many times something has been observed, it cannot be believed until it has been observed again.

If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look back to the primitive stage of human knowledge, we shall see that it must have been otherwise then. If it is true that every theory must be based upon observed facts; it is equally true that facts can not be observed without the guidance of some theory. Without such guidance, our facts would be desultory and fruitless; we could not retain them: for the most part we could not even perceive them.

Price is what you pay, but value, as Warren Buffett has observed, is what you get.

The torture of being the unseen object, and the constantly observed subject.

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

One of the most difficult features of direct experience is that it is unfiltered by any theories or expectations. It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they explain not only what is observed, but what can be observed. We start to build expectations based on our theories.

It is to be observed that 'angling' is the name given to fishing by people who can't fish.

I hate generalizing. But what I've seen, from what I've observed, fundraising's an issue for women candidates.

Let us remember that justice must be observed even to the lowest.

The hypotheses which we accept ought to explain phenomena which we have observed. But they ought to do more than this; our hypotheses ought to foretell phenomena which have not yet been observed; ... because if the rule prevails, it includes all cases; and will determine them all, if we can only calculate its real consequences. Hence it will predict the results of new combinations, as well as explain the appearances which have occurred in old ones. And that it does this with certainty and correctness, is one mode in which the hypothesis is to be verified as right and useful.

It is observed of gold, by an old epigrammatist, that to have it is to be in fear, and to want it is to be in sorrow.

The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

If the Commission is to enquire into the conditions "to be observed," it is to be presumed that they will give the result of their enquiries; or, in other words, that they will lay down, or at least suggest, "rules" and "conditions to be (hereafter) observed" in the construction of bridges, or, in other words, embarrass and shackle the progress of improvement to-morrow by recording and registering as law the prejudices or errors of to-day. [Objecting to any interference by the State with the freedom of civil engineers in the conduct of their professional work.]

Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.

Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.

We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.

Whenever a man undergoes a considerable change, in consequence of being observed by others, whenever he assumes another gait, another language, than what he had before he thought himself observed, be advised to guard yourself against him.

A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "unwittingly," the writer scowling naively and the diners wondering, What the hell is he doing?

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

I have observed several hundred salespeople who were taught to use deceptive practices like 'bait and switch' and encouraged to play negotiation games with customers. They were so stressed by this behavior that they suffered from a high incidence of alcohol and substance abuse, divorce, job-jumping, and low productivity. In the same industry, I have observed countless people who had been taught to sell with high integrity. Ironically, their customer satisfaction, profit margins, and salesperson retention were significantly higher.

As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established.

... if it were the fashion to go naked, the face would be hardly observed.

The observer is the observed.

Nothing is real unless it is observed

I talk to myself all the time - it's something my children have observed in the car.

Propriety is the least of all laws, and the most observed.

You can't observe as much if you're observed by others.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

You're in an awfully good mood," he observed. "Was there a sale at Khakis-R-Us?

Working with Salman, I have observed that he is a very straightforward person.

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

A discipline I have observed is an attitude of love and reverence to people.

We have observed all kinds of things, including Cucumber Day. There was a Honeybee Week.

If I had a dog that was sick as often as you are, I'd put it down," he observed kindly.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.

Evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening.

The Heisenberg principle - If something is closely observed, the odds are it is going to be altered in the process. The more a price pattern is observed by speculators the more prone you have false signals; the more the market is a product of nonspeculative activity, the greater the significance of technical breakout

The discipline, nonetheless, is exacting: everything that can be observed should be observed, even if it is only recalled as the bland background from which the intriguing bits pop out like Venus in the evening sky. The goal is always finding something new, hopefully unimagined and, better still, hitherto unimaginable.

A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.

Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

A writer's job is not complete without attention to precision. What you're trying to be precise about is your relationship to the observed thing. And "observed thing" could include remembered thing, fantasized thing, fictionalized thing, recorded thing, trans-altered thing. It's the model that's in front of you or in your brain or your memory or whatever. So you're trying to be precise about what it is you're seeing because it's very unlikely that you're going to be able to depict it as it is.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should seem a fool, but be wise.

I observed that after marriage people cease to be curious.

It is not observed in history that families improve with time.

In 1956 we observed the electron antineutrino.

I long ago observed that the real beauty of the sound comes from the generosity of the heart.

What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

It would appear... that moral phenomena, when observed on a great scale, are found to resemble physical phenomena; and we thus arrive, in inquiries of this kind, at the fundamental principle, that the greater the number of individuals observed, the more do individual peculiarities, whether physical or moral, become effaced, and leave in a prominent point of view the general facts, by virtue of which society exists and is preserved.

The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.

In a Leopard the spotts are not observed.

I think any big success is paralyzing. I have observed it in others.