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Observation Quotes

Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.

Fight Enemy Observation Hill Watch

Ruskin believed that everyone had visual as well as verbal capacities that needed to be developed in order to become a complete human being, and that the apprehension of truth depended on the power of observation.

Truth Power Observation Become Human

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.

Robert Delaunay

Nature Me Observation Essence Direct

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.

Joseph Stiglitz

Work Day Logic Every Day Observation

We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.

Knowledge Down Observation Duty May

I'm really fascinated by other directors' methods. I've done a lot of learning by observation.

Marianne Elliott

Learning Done Observation Methods

My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

George Washington

Person Done Three Observation Duty

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

Truth Observation Lead Little Error

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

George Bernard Shaw

Power Observation Cynicism Got Who

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Walter Winchell

You Place Observation Hollywood

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

Life Observation Piercing Slim Brief

Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

Born Observation Years Only Made

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.

Funny Me You Want Observation Joke

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

Robert Baden-Powell

Listening You Observation Will Talk

Observation is an old man's memory.

Man Memory Observation Old

The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

Feel Know Observation Personal Way

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.

Country Observation Two Opening

Chimps don't have language. Humans actively instruct others about how things should be done. Chimpanzees probably pick up cultural traditions by observation.

Language Done Observation Others Up

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Man Book Flight Observation Fancy

In the end, they pardoned me and packed me off to a home for the shell-shocked. Shortly before the end of the war, I was discharged a second time, once again with the observation that I was subject to recall at any time.

Home Time War Me End Observation

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Wallace Stevens

Thinking Observation Accuracy

High-energy collisions have led to the observation of many hundreds of new hadronic particle states. These new particles, which are generally unstable, appear to be just as fundamental as the neutron and the proton.

New Observation Just Unstable Many

It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities.

People World Play Observation Always

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

Observation Where Between Concerned

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