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Quotes and Sayings About observation
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent whereby we may perceive Truth.
Yukio Mishima
Agent
Become
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It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.
Calvin Coolidge
Life
Observation
Exercise
Patience
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It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford
Observation
People
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There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.
Will Rogers
Electric
Fence
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Being
Better
Constantly
Desiring
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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 Douglass
Appreciate
Appreciated
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Easily
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Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
Wallace Stevens
Accuracy
Equivalent
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Thinking
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Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Beyond
Both
Either
Existence
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Walter Winchell
Contract
Hollywood
Instead
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The wild Indian power of escaping observation, even where there is little or no cover to hide in, was probably slowly acquired in hard hunting and fighting lessons while trying to approach game, take enemies by surprise, or get safely away when compelled to retreat.
John Muir
Acquired
Approach
Away
Compelled
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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
Absorb
After
Changes
Detail
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
Accurate
Commonly
Cynicism
Got
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I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.
Frank Miller
Being
Being There
Best
Create
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Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
Marcus Aurelius
Ability
Broaden
Investigate
Life
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For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Agenda
Balanced
Based
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Observation, very general and wide-spread, has shown that small children are endowed with a special psychic nature. This shows us a new way of imparting education!
Maria Montessori
Children
Education
Endowed
General
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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe', but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses.
Maria Montessori
Cannot
Create
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Giving
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I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.
Maria Mitchell
Again
AllDay
Almost
Am
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I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.
Maria Mitchell
Cannot
Comet
Cooper
Elements
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Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.
J. Paul Getty
Change
Experience
I HaveLearned
Learned
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Observations always involve theory.
Edwin Powell Hubble
Observation
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It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.
Daniel Kahneman
Trend
Probably
Spotted
Think
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It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses.
Isaac Newton
Apparent
Because
Bodies
Come
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It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.
Laurence Sterne
Candle
Certain
Day
Either
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Monterey, as far as my observation goes, is decidedly the pleasantest and most civilized-looking place in California.
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
Observation
California
Decidedly
Civilized
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I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me a lot of human observation to draw on.
Lois McMaster Bujold
All My Work
Care
Draw
Experience
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My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.
Henri Matisse
My choice
Rest
Scientific theory
Observation
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Whereas what man can learn about the world through his senses and through the intellect which relies upon sense-observation may be called 'anthropology,' what the spiritual man within us can know may be called 'anthroposophy.'
Rudolf Steiner
About
Anthropology
His
Intellect
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The ultimate court of appeal is observation and experiment not authority.
Thomas Henry Huxley
The ultimate
Court
Appeal
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Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.
Auguste Comte
Positivism
A theory
Knowledge
Sound knowledge
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Every science consists in the coordination of facts; if the different observations were entirely isolated, there would be no science.
Auguste Comte
Every science
The coordination
Different observations
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Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.
Samuel Richardson
Women
Observed
Least
Lay out
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Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.
Stephen Hawking
Science
Is beautiful
Simple explanations
Phenomena
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We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.
Steve Allen
We
Kind
Criticism
Humor
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There is no more difficult art to acquire than the art of observation, and for some men it is quite as difficult to record an observation in brief and plain language.
William Osler
Difficult
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Men
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Observation can really help you escape the trap of unnecessary friendship.
Helen Paul
Observation
Help you
Unnecessary friendship
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Observation is an old man’s memory.
Jonathan Swift
Observation
Old man's
Memory
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True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
Josh Billings
Wisdom
Experience
Reflecton
Ignorance
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