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

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.

Peter M. Leschak

Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Observation-activity of both eyes and ears.

Horace Mann

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

I am not smart. I try to observe. Millions saw the apple fall but Newton was the one who asked why.

Bernard Mannes Baruch

Each one sees what he carries in his heart.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

William Hazlitt

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.

Isaac Watts

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

Will Rogers

Those who cannot themselves observe can at least acquire the observation of others.

Benjamin Disraeli

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.

Henry Moore

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

Robertson Davies

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.

William S. Burroughs

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Rudolf Arnheim

Observation is an old man's memory.

Jonathan Swift

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

James Abram Garfield

You can observe a lot by watching.

Yogi Berra

Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science.

Robert G. Ingersoll

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