Quotes About Observation

Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.

Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.

Experience by itself teaches nothing.

Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other ­people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.

Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

My choice of colors does not rest on any scientific theory, it is based on observation, on feeling, on the experience of my sensibility.

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

In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

You can't understand it until you experience the simple joy of the first time your son points at a seagull and says 'Duck!'

In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.

The question of naturalism is a fallacy, it does not exist... The photographic image replaces naturalistic experience.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

I learn so much from watching films like that with commentary and then when you get to hear another filmmaker talk about their films it's a really great experience.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

The less you carry the more you will see, the less you spend the more you will experience.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.