Observation Quotes

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.

Reality gets created through acts of observation

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

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

Art is more to do with observation than invention.

Observation, not old age, brings wisdom.

Objectivity is the delusion that observations could be made without an observer.

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

The observer cannot be left out of the description of the observation.

One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

Observation, reason, and experiment make up what we call the scientific method.

Theories crumble, but good observations never fade.

Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations.

An amazing observation: it is precisely for feelings that one needs time, not for thought. ... Feelings, obviously, are more demanding than thought.

There is no pure, disinterested, theory-free observation.

The only way I could work properly was by using the absolute maximum of observation and concentration that I could possible muster.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude that ability, although hereditary, is improved by an early measure of adversity and improved again by a later measure of success.

Observation always involves theory.

It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.

Correct observation followed by meticulous deduction and the precise visualization of goals is vital to the success of any enterprise.

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

If a writer stops observing, he is finished.

I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it.

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.

They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.

It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

When you make an observation, you have an obligation.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

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.

Observation capitalizes inspiration.

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

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

It is what you choose not to observe in your life that controls your life.

Observation - activity of both eyes and ears.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Allow me to congratulate you on your very astute powers of observation.

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

If you try to observe the precepts, that is not true observation of precepts. When you observe the precepts without trying to observe the precepts, that is true observation of the precepts.

To find out what happens to a system when you interfere with it you have to interfere with it (not just passively observe it).

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.