Observation proverbs

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◆ A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ It's funny how, in this journey of life, even though we may begin at different times and places, our paths cross with others so that we may share our love, compassion, observations, and hope. This is a design of God that I appreciate and cherish.

- Steve Maraboli99

◆ Everybody is wrong about everything, just about all the time.

- Chuck Klosterman99

◆ Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details.

- Arthur Conan Doyle99

◆ I think that my job is to observe people and the world, and not to judge them. I always hope to position myself away from so-called conclusions. I would like to leave everything wide open to all the possibilities in the world.

- Haruki Murakami99

◆ The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

- Ken Kesey99

◆ What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

- Michael Connelly99

◆ Reason, Observation and Experience — the Holy Trinity of Science — have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect.

- Robert G. Ingersoll99

◆ Any cupcake consumed before 9AM is, technically, a muffin.

- Brian P. Cleary99

◆ In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.

- Julie Andrews Edwards99

◆ I sometimes think my head is so large because it is so full of dreams.

- Joseph Merrick99

◆ I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be.

- Isaac Asimov99

◆ We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts.

- William Hazlitt98

◆ Association with human beings lures one into self-observation.

- Franz Kafka98