We will take almost any kind of criticism except the observation that we have no sense of humor.

The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

Wrong hypotheses, rightly worked from, have produced more useful results than unguided observations.

It has been my observation and experience, and that of my family, that nothing human works out well.

That extremes beget extremes is an apothegm built on the most profound observation of the human mind.

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

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

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

Nothing comes out more clearly in astronomical observations than the immense activity of the universe.

The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.

Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left.

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

Flannery O'Connor's brief life and slim output were nonetheless marked by piercing powers of observation.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

Open up a few corpses: you will dissipate at once the darkness that observation alone could not dissipate.

My work is not so much a direct commentary as it is an open-ended observation of the absurdities around us.

Learning about and from your customers isn't always easy and requires a commitment to continual observation.

She wrote to him fairly regularly, from a paradise of triple exclamation points and inaccurate observations.

There are really so many subtleties of meaning and observation that very often are not expressed by writers.

It is a common observation, that the more solicitous any people are about dress, the more effeminate they are.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation

It is the merest truism, evident at once to unsophisticated observation, that mathematics is a human invention.

Nothing in Scientology is true for you unless you have observed it and it is true according to your observation.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.

The overly-verbal artist is led by his understanding of things--rather than by direct observation of things as they are.

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

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

I don't think I can do this - painting under observation. It's the worst thing there is, worse than being in the hospital.

When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.

Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

The only way we can ever get through to the truth is by finding out what we are not. We do that by looking, by observation.

Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.

Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

Observe, and in that observation there is neither the "observer" nor the "observed" - there is only observation taking place.

It is an encouraging observation that no good measure was ever proposed which, if duly pursued, failed to prevail in the end.

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