Quotes About Observation

As in the experimental sciences, truth cannot be distinguished from error as long as firm principles have not been established through the rigorous observation of facts.

In good comedy, the structure comes from truth and that weird eye that looks at the way life is.

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

I've always been fascinated by weather.

A portrait isn't a fact but an opinion - an occasion rather than a truth.

I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

To see truth as truth, we don't need a lot of study. It's not complicated. What we need is pure observation. An open mind and fresh eyes will serve us well.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

For the truth of the conclusions of physical science, observation is the supreme Court of Appeal.

It might sound glib, but in a sense, as an actor Im a journalist and a psychologist recording life and truth.

Laughter is sort of a natural truth detector. If you laugh at something, it's probably because there was some truth in it.

But the truth is that critics are by definition critical. That's their job.

I have been involved with this stuff [newspapers, television] all my life, but I'm involved, so I know when you're telling the truth and when you're not.

In truth, most of us don't know our cats.

I saw more truth and sensitivity in art than I did in many of the people in this world.

When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.

But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it The diverse things they see.

A true account of the actual is the rarest poetry, for common sense always takes a hasty and superficial view.

Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

You'd find out more truth by just walking down the street with a musical instrument than by looking at any of the news outlets.

I watched the sheets breathe when she breathed, like how Dad used to say that trees inhale when people exhale, because I was too young to understand the truth about biological processes.

Sometimes you can learn things from the way a person denies something. The choice of lies can be almost as helpful as the truth.

I'd like to be invisible. To be anonymous and see things for what they really are. The truth may be painful but it's probably useful!