Quotes
Quotes about Observation
If ladies be but young and fair,
They have the gift to know it; and in his brain,
Which is as dry as the remainder biscuit
After a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd
With observation, the which he vents
In mangled forms.
For he is but a bastard to the time
That doth not smack of observation.
By my penny of observation.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
To observations which ourselves we make,
We grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
Let observation with extensive view
Survey mankind, from China to Peru.
The bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no one thing intimately has no views worth hearing on things in general.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
