(518 quotes found)
“Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don't claim them. Feel the artistry moving through and be silent.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge. . . observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.”
Denis Diderot
“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.”
“He bade me observe it, and I should always find, that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that the middle station had the fewest disasters”
Daniel Defoe
“Any measurement must take into account the position of the observer. There is no such thing as measurement absolute, there is only measurement relative.”
Jeanette Winterson
“The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it”
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
“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
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It's about finding something interesting in an ordinary place... I've found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.”
Elliott Erwitt
“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
