Observation Quotes

...[She] was not nearly so intrusive. If she happened to observe the comings and goings of her friends out of the corner of her eye (which she could hardly fail to do, given the nature of her favorite sitting-place) and chanced to be able to remember when she had seen them and where they had been going, it was simply a tribute to her keen powers of observation and recall. Conscious spying was beneath her altogether.

Tom Holt

If you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe - to see you, and to give a fuck - you've already blown it.

Neal Stephenson

The eyes are the window of the soul.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Robertson Davies

The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

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.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.

George Meredith

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.

G. C. Lichtenberg

There's none so blind as those who won't see.

English Proverb

The eyes are the window of the soul.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

The eyes believe themselves the ears believe other people.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

Robertson Davies

The things we see are the mind's best bet as to what is out front.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

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.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To become the spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life and are attached to the duties yet escape the harsher blows make acute and balanced observers.

George Meredith

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.

G. C. Lichtenberg

There's none so blind as those who won't see.

English Proverb

I moved out of my head office and went out of my mind.

Benny Bellamacina

Those who are most sincere are also the most morally suspect, as well as being incapable of producing or appreciating wit.

Interest makes some people blind and others quick-sighted.

Francis Beaumont

I have always loved to begin with the facts, to observe them, to walk in the light of experiment and demonstrate as much as possible, and to discuss the results.

Giovanni Arduino

The longer I observe the way people really act, the happier I am that I never pay attention to them.

George Alec Effinger

The extracellular genesis of cells in animals seemed to me, ever since the publication of the cell theory [of Schwann], just as unlikely as the spontaneous generation of organisms. These doubts produced my observations on the multiplication of blood cells by division in bird and mammalian embryos and on the division of muscle bundles in frog larvae. Since then I have continued these observations in frog larvae, where it is possible to follow the history of tissues back to segmentation.

Man with goatee. Man who looked like a Beatle. All the Beatles at once. Woman wearing newspaper hat. I'd grown used to how weird New Yorkers were, and I could fit them into types.

Observe your imperfections. Love them. Then move through them.

Matthew Donnelly

Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

Chuck Klosterman

I always notice flowers.

He seemed like the type that kept people at arm's length, maybe out of arrogance or maybe from personal choice- either way, I wanted to know him so that those eyes were narrowed and focused solely on me.

R.S Grey

It was the most fleeting time of day, and maybe that was why it was her favorite. Because if you blinked, if you closed your eyes or turned your head for even the briefest of moments, you might just miss it. And like most things in life, the transient, fleeting nature of the moment made it all the more special.

Kelseyleigh Reber

It doesn't seem to matter what we think...The prince will come up here and look at us as if we're barrels in a trader's wagon. And if I'm salt pork and he doesn't care for salt pork, then there's nothing I can do.

I observed on most collected stones the imprints of innumerable plant fragments which were so different from those which are growing in the Lyonnais, in the nearby provinces, and even in the rest of France, that I felt like collecting plants in a new world... The number of these leaves, the way they separated easily, and the great variety of plants whose imprints I saw, appeared to me just as many volumes of botany representing in the same quarry the oldest library of the world.

Antoine de Jussieu

Another very good test some readers may want to look up, which we do not have space to describe here, is the Casimir effect, where forces between metal plates in empty space are modified by the presence of virtual particles.Thus virtual particles are indeed real and have observable effects that physicists have devised ways of measuring. Their properties and consequences are well established and well understood consequences of quantum mechanics.

Poets make the best topographers.

Chaos is peaceful when you stand quietly & watch - we are eternal observers, reflecting both tiny & vast, singing infinitely within.

We may observe in some of the abrupt grounds we meet with, sections of great masses of strata, where it is as easy to read the history of the sea, as it is to read the history of Man in the archives of any nation.

Jean-André de Luc

Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.

Observe and learn from stronger and better people than yours instead of laughing and pulling legs of poor and weak than yours.

Judging is acting on a limited knowledge. Learn the art of observing without evaluating.

Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.

Archibald E. Garrod

All this seeing.All this relentless taking in.

Christmas comes but once a year, starts in August ends in July

Benny Bellamacina

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution: this central concept of modern biology is no longer one among many other possible or even conceivable hypotheses. It is today the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. And nothing warrants the supposition - or the hope - that on this score our position is ever likely to be revised. There is no scientific concept, in any of the sciences, more destructive of anthropocentrism than this one.

Observation is a critical activity in the innovation process to understand the context of an issue from a human perspective.

Pearl Zhu

We need courage to take ourselves seriously, to look closely and without flinching, to regard the things that frighten us in life and art with wonder.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I am not accustomed to saying anything with certainty after only one or two observations.

Andreas Vesalius

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