Observation Quotes

"It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste."
-Henry Ford

"He doesn't watch, he notices."
-Thomas D'evelyn

"They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed."
-John Tillotson

"The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it."
-George Bernard Shaw

"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."
-Louis Pasteur

"In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. "
-Louis Pasteur

"Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature."
-Cicero

"A traveller without observation is a bird without wings."
-Muslih uddin Sadi

"RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection."
-Ambrose Bierce

"This observation suggests a dramatic and perhaps permanent perturbation of the natural history of the disease, maybe even a cure. Longer follow-up will determine whether this interpretation is correct."
-Gabriel Hortobagyi

"A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth."
-Alexis Carrel

"Everybody seems to think Madeleine sounds like Billie Holiday, ... I think that's OK, but it's really not all that important an observation. She sounds a little bit like Billie to me, but that's not anything to make a big deal about it."
-Marian Mcpartland

"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."
-Sir William Osler

"When it comes to this music, it just seems to be a foregone conclusion that there is going to be some kind of excuse for things not being able to be implemented that are deemed necessary for the successful realization of the music. I know that this is sounding clumsy and that it could easily be misinterpreted, but one doesn't have to be a brain trust to make the observation that I've just made."
-Bill Dixon

"It [the virus] is extremely difficult to get rid of, so scientists do not want to raise false hope. It's a very interesting observation, but we have to be cautious to see if this observation could be confirmed."
-David Ho

"We made a fairly diligent search of our records. We could find no reference to any commitment to provide an observation deck."
-James Gallagher

"Almost every baseline fact of importance was changed -- distance, lighting, observation."
-Patrick Tillman

"He will be kept under observation overnight. We won't be saying anything else until tomorrow morning."
-David Whitton

"A system was set in place to ensure immediate response and ensured communication between agencies. But observation of the events on Dec. 2 of the evacuations of the courthouses calls much of that into doubt."
-Sen. Donald Defronzo

"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

"The students see something that they find extremely exciting, something really interesting and they design a hypothesis around that observation. ... Then they design an experiment and write up the experiment."
-Ten Eyck

"Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common."
-Denis Diderot

"He is still under our observation. But he is still stable and still in hospital."
-Leon Mbangwa

"Every young girl should have the opportunity of learning out-of-doors by first-hand observation, the wonders and loveliness nature has spread so lavishly-and how it grows."
-Lou Henry Hoover

"He's being transported to the hospital for observation. The injuries are believed to be superficial."
-Danny Perez

"There is a continuum which starts with direct sensory observations and proceeds to enormously complex, indirect methods of observation."
-Rudolf Carnap

"He will remain under observation in the intensive care unit and if everything goes well we will be able to take measures that will make him more comfortable."
-Manuel Cervera

"We will file first thing in the morning a motion that he be allowed to stay [at the San Juan Medical Center] for observation until Tuesday night."
-Rene Saguisag