. . . separation of the observer from the phenomenon to be observed is no longer possible.
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.
I always tell the adults at my dance school, 'Men, you are going to have to do something that you are absolutely not used to: you have got to take command and be the boss. ' Because - and this is just an observation - women get their way.
I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.
It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student.
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been. . . by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, and then bullying my way to the top, that is the conclusion I've come to.
I'm not. . . ' Angharad began, but then she thought. Not what? Not a bad person? Perhaps. But had she never known anger? Never held unkind thoughts? The stranger's observation was valid. No one was innocent of darkness.
All of the directors I work with have their own unique gifts. My particular segment deals with online dating. It's a very interesting take on it, and a great observation of what goes on there.
The plan of salvation as stated in the Bible can be seen through observation of the universe around us.
The attitude of silent observation is the very foundation of yoga. You see the picture, but you are not the picture.
Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as well as expression. There are clichés of observation and of thought - even of conception. Many novels, even quite a few adequately written ones, are clichés of form which conform to clichés of expectation.
Under observation, we act less free, which means we effectively are less free.
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.
You see, it's really quite simple. A simile is just a mode of comparison employing 'as' and 'like' to reveal the hidden character or essence of whatever we want to describe, and through the use of fancy, association, contrast, extension, or imagination, to enlarge our understanding or perception of human experience and observation.
Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with.
In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.
Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.
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.
People learn more from observation that they do from conversation.
