Quotes with observer

  • A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
  • 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.

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  • R. Buckland A large body of research results demonstrates that an observer can be persuaded to conform to the majority opinion, even when the majority is completely wrong.
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  • Alexander Pope A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Henry Thomas Buckle An accurate observer is, no doubt, rare; but an accurate thinker is far rarer.
    Henry Thomas Buckle
    English historian (1821 - 1862)
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  • Arthur Conan Doyle As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.
    Arthur Conan Doyle
    British writer and medical doctor (1859 - 1930)
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  • Brendan Myers Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who want to be part of the Pagan community, but who want to be a little more intellectual about their practices, and they really don't care about the 'woo' anymore.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Pat Buchanan I think that in the minds of many, the press is being seen less and less as a neutral observer in the impeachment enterprise and more and more as participants, or even collaborators. [On Media's Participation In Watergate]
    Pat Buchanan
    American politician author and columnist (1938 - )
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  • Wallace Stevens If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Noam Chomsky If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.
    Noam Chomsky
    American Linguist, Political Activist (1928 - )
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan 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.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Christopher Lasch Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
    Christopher Lasch
    American historian (1932 - 1994)
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  • Alexander Pope One who is too wise an observer of the business of others, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Bertrand Russell The observer, when he seems to himself to be observing a stone, is really, if physics is to be believed, observing the effects of the stone upon himself.
    An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Bayard Ruskin The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
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  • Stephen Hawking There's no way to remove the observer - us - from our perceptions of the world.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • C. V. Raman To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Alexander Pope To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • W. H. Auden To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word ''Intellectual'' suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Anthony Holden While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Brendan Coyle You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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