Quotes with observation

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ''creative observation.'' Creative viewing.

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

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.

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

General principles are not the less true or important because from their nature they elude immediate observation; they are like the air, which is not the less necessary because we neither see nor feel it.

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

Science is simply common sense at its best-that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.