Observation Quotes
A curated collection of the best quotes about Observation.
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“Strategy requires thought, tactics require observation.”
“A pinch of observation is worth a mountain of hypothesis.”
“Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning”
“Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.”
“The gap between our feelings and our social observation is dangerously wide.”
“Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.”
“If a tree falls in a forest, and no-one is around to hear it, does it make a noise?”
“One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.”
“It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.”
“Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.”
“Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.”
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“It is a trite but true observation, that examples work more forcibly on the mind than precepts.”
“Most, if not all, of the great ideas of modern mathematics have had their origin in observation.”
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
• English equivalent: Who watches the watchmen?”
“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
“None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.”
“It is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they are confirmed by theory.”
“Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.”