Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth.
Alexis Carrel
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
You can observe a lot by watching.
Yogi Berra
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Robertson Davies
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
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
Rudolf Arnheim
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
Louis Pasteur
We can see nothing face to face; our utmost seeing is but a fumbling of blind finger-ends in an overcrowded pocket.
Samuel Butler
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
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
Observation is an old man's memory.
Jonathan Swift