Observation Quotes
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You can observe a lot just by watching. (Quote by - Yogi Berra)
The observation of nature is part of an artist's life, it enlarges his form [and] knowledge, keeps him fresh and from working only by formula, and feeds inspiration. (Quote by - Henry Moore)
One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth. (Quote by - Alexis Carrel)
To him that watches, everything is revealed. (Quote by - Italian Proverb)
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life. (Quote by - Marcus Aurelius)
He alone is an acute observer, who can observe minutely without being observed. (Quote by - Johann Kaspar Lavater)
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers. (Quote by - George Meredith)
He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great. (Quote by - John Ruskin)
As a man is, so he sees. (Quote by - William Blake)
All of us are watchers--of television, of time clocks, of traffic on the freeway--but few are observers. Everyone is looking, not many are seeing. (Quote by - Peter M. Leschak)
Observation -- activity of both eyes and ears. (Quote by - Horace Mann)
One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees. (Quote by - Charled Peguy)
Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-lytton)
We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts. (Quote by - William Hazlitt)
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. (Quote by - William Blake)
It is the theory that decides what can be observed. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell)
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
I keep six honest serving-men they taught me all I know; their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
I rather like the world. The flesh is pleasing and the Devil does not trouble me. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Mystery is not profoundness. (Quote by - Charles Caleb Colton)
The difference between landscape and landscape is small, but there's a great difference in the beholders. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us. (Quote by - Studs Terkel)
The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people. (Quote by - German proverb)
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front. (Quote by - Adelbert Ames)
The eye is the jewel of the body. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition. (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
People only see what they are prepared to see. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The lower classes of men, though they do not think it worthwhile to record what they perceive, nevertheless perceive everything that is worth noting; the difference between them and a man of learning often consists in nothing more than the latter's facility for expression. (Quote by - G. C. Lichtenberg)
There's none so blind as those who won't see. (Quote by - English proverb)
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (Quote by - Louis Pasteur)
Each one sees what he carries in his heart. (Quote by - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. (Quote by - Isaac Watts)
People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention. (Quote by - Rudolf Arnheim)
Observation is an old man's memory. (Quote by - Jonathan Swift)
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory. (Quote by - James Abram Garfield)
I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond. (Quote by - Larry Bird)
The cure for admiring the house of lords is to go and look at it. (Quote by - Walter Bagehot)
