(518 quotes found)
“On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.”
Virginia Woolf
“You can see a lot just by observing”
Yogi Berra
“I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“How could I have known how much it meant for her to see a patch of blue sky, to observe the flying seagulls, or how important that chestnut tree was to her, when she had never shown an interest in nature before. But once she felt like a caged bird, how she longed for it. Even just the thought of the open air gave her comfort, but she kept all these feelings to herself.”
Otto Frank
“Observation - activity of both eyes and ears”
Horace Mann
“A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.”
Alexis Carrel
“Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.”
Robert Green Ingersoll
“What is it that escapes the observation of poets? What is that act women are incapable of doing? What will drunken people not prate? What will not a crow eat?”
Chanakya
“A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others”
William Faulkner
“From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.”
Isaac Asimov
