#observation

Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most sensitive about is money. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

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One finds the truth by making a hypothesis and comparing observations with the hypothesis. ↗

— David Douglass

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Truth in science is always determined from observational facts. ↗

— David Douglass

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The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be. ↗

— William Feather

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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

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We cannot create observers by saying 'observe,' but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and these means are procured through education of the senses. ↗

— Maria Montessori

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First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians. ↗

— Ellen Muth

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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument. ↗

— Will Rogers

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I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell. ↗

— Tom Holland

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If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know. ↗

— Jonathan D. Spence

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