Observation Quotes

But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

Buddha

If you cant think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isnt scientific.

Jerry Coyne

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

Ingmar Bergman

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Adam Smith

It's a great mistake, I think, to put children off with falsehoods and nonsense, when their growing powers of observation and discrimination excite in them a desire to know about things.

Anne Sullivan

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Walter Winchell

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.

Ellen Key

Good men, whether they be Christians or rationalists, do not desire to discriminate between races, but the distinctions implanted by Nature are too conspicuous to escape the observation of our senses.

Arthur Keith

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Frederick Douglas

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Robert Baden-Powell

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Bruce Barton

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

Robert G. Ingersoll

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.

Louis Pasteur

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

Sir Walter Scott