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Quotes About Observation

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.
~ Paul Thomas Anderson
There is no one truth. There's only what happened, based on how you perceive it.
~ Jodi Picoult
Did you ever see a giraffe? It is like something from between the regions of truth and fiction.
~ Geraldine Jewsbury
What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.
~ Michael Connelly, Trunk Music
Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.
~ Sepp Holzer
The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Within infinite myths lies the Eternal Truth Who sees it all? Varuna has but a thousand eyes Indra, a hundred And I, only two
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
~ Joseph Conrad
Sometimes it takes an outsider, someone with fresh eyes to see the truth.
~ Ally Carter
People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx
On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.
~ Ze Frank
Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.
~ Frances Wright
Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.
~ Virginia Woolf
The truth is generally seen, rarely heard.
~ Baltasar Gracian
One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
It is an acknowledged truth in philosophy that a just theory will always be confirmed by experiment.
~ Thomas Malthus
Truth that peeps Over the glass's edge when dinner's done.
~ Robert Browning
Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.
~ David Douglass
There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.
~ Mary McCarthy
Experiment is the sole source of truth.
~ Henri Poincare
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
~ Thornton Wilder
The facts, if they are there, speak for themselves.
~ David Seabury
By the flaws in the picture the truth will emerge.
~ William S. Burroughs
The truth does not reveal itself to idle spectators.
~ Matthew Crawford