observation quotes

• There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge available to us: observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination. 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. (Denis Diderot) [knowledge/observation/nature/observation]
• It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste. (Henry Ford) [observation/people/time/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. (William Hazlitt) [nature/observation]
• That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good. (Samuel Johnson) [observation/knowledge/willpower/more]
• Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. (Harriet Martineau) [customs/process/observation/customs]
• The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to! . It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness. (Margaret Oliphant) [women/observation/helplessness]
• The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. (George Bernard Shaw) [power/observation/cynicism]
• The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. (Henry David Thoreau) [artist/right/observation/genius]
• One of the primary responsibilities of an actor -- and luxuries -- is the art of observation, being able to watch people and watch their behavior ... which is fascinating, because people are really nuts. (Johnny Depp) [art/observation/being/people]

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