Observation Quotes - Page 35

• It is a just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good. This often applies to their very errors. But their good sense would despise the adulator who should pretend they always reason right about the means of promoting it.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Errors, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.135, Rowman & Littlefield

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• It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.

  Alexander Hamilton

  People, Good People, Public Good

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.351, Coventry House Publishing

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• To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

  Victor Hugo

  Men, Civilization, Language

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hitherto my observations have only aimed at a vindication of the provision in question, on the ground of theoretic propriety . . . . But there remains to be mentioned a positive advantage . . . I allude to the circumstance of uniformity in the time of elections for the House of Representatives. It is more than possible, that this uniformity may be found by experience to be of great importance to the public welfare; both as a security against the perpetuation of the same spirit in the body; and as a cure for the diseases of faction.

  Alexander Hamilton

  House, Public Opinion, Body

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• The observations, so numerous and so important, of the pendulum as object are especially relevant to the length of its oscillations. Those that I propose to make known to the [Paris] Academy [of Sciences] are principally addressed to the direction of the plane of its oscillation, which, moving gradually from east to west, provides evidence to the senses of the diurnal movement of the terrestrial globe.

  Leon Foucault

  Moving, Science, Paris

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• After a lifetime in this subject, I have concluded that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is one reasonable tentative approach to putting the best-documented and most puzzling UFO reports into a scientifically defensible conceptual framework. By such reports I mean those with credible multiple or independent witnesses, instrumented observations, and physical evidence.

  Jerome Clark

  Mean, Independent, Lifetime

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• There is an overwhelming mass of authentic evidence which can be cited as: direct observation, indirect observation, and supporting evidence or indication.

  Morris K. Jessup

  Indirect, Mass, Evidence

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• I did have an occasion in 1951 to have two days of observation of many flights of them, they were of different sizes, flying in fighter formation, generally from east to west over Europe.

  Gordon Cooper

  Europe, Two, Flying

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• The amount of relief and comfort experienced by the sick after the skin has been carefully washed and dried, is one of the commonest observations made at a sick bed.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Sick, Skins

  Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.64

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• Macaulay somewhere says, that it is extraordinary that, whereas the laws of the motions of the heavenly bodies, far removed as they are from us, are perfectly well understood, the laws of the human mind, which are under our observation all day and every day, are no better understood than they were two thousand years ago.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Years, Law

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not”, p.6

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• I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness and profundity quite unmatched--have found their way into book form. No one tells these tales of young Ted, Mr. Geisel, and Dr. Seuss, and makes the connections between the three of them, quite like Dr. Pease.

  Ron Lamothe

  Book, Unique, Cameras

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• Sometimes it takes the better part of a lifetime to find out what your passion is, but in my observation, if you do, it might be the best part of your life.

  Jane Pauley

  Life, Passion, Might

  Jane Pauley (2014). “Your Life Calling: Reimagining the Rest of Your Life”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Through my own observations. I am convinced that an absolutely honest and direct inquiry into oneself will lead to understanding.

  Bruce Lee

  Understanding, Inquiry, Honest

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• I am inspired by many mediums and use them to express varied aspects of my philosophies and life observations.

  Judith Anderson

  Philosophy, Use, Inspired

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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

  School, Gay, Rooms

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The event concept was sparked from a shared observation amongst these leading lifestyle brands that the economic rebound has spurred greater liquidity into real estate, the stock market is setting new heights and consumers are generally stepping out more for luxury goods and services. After many years of pulling back, it was fun to see guests flirting with temptation, whether that was a new home, a new car, a new look or just to learn more about the trends. Others were happy to take in all the action.

  Andrea Savage

  Fun, Real, Home

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• A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation.

  Stephen Hawking

  Simple, Firsts, Predictions

  "Audio: Stephen Hawking’s Best Quotes" by Adam Mann, www.wired.com. January 8, 2012.

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• Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe doesn’t have an end, it had a beginning in the Big Bang. One might ask what is before that but the answer is that there is nowhere before the Big Bang just as there is nowhere south of the South Pole.

  Stephen Hawking

  Forever, Answers, Might

  "Audio: Stephen Hawking’s Best Quotes" by Adam Mann, www.wired.com. January 8, 2012.

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• Most of the people buying the Soviet paraphernalia were Americans and West Europeans. All would be sickened by the thought of wearing a swastika. None objected, however, to wearing the hammer and sickle on a T-shirt or a hat. It was a minor observation, but sometimes, it is through just such minor observations that a cultural mood is best observed. For here, the lesson could not have been clearer: while the symbol of one mass murder fills us with horror, the symbol of another mass murder makes us laugh.

  Anne Applebaum

  People, Laughing, Would Be

  Anne Applebaum (2007). “Gulag: A History”, p.15, Anchor

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• Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

  Amit Ray

  Inspiration, Self, Meditation Practice

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.64, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• The man who succeeds above his fellows is the one who early in life, clearly discerns his object, and towards that object habitually directs his powers. Even genius itself is but fine observation strengthened by fixity of purpose. Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Success, Men, Purpose

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• It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.

  Ansel Adams

  Art, Light, Expression

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• I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Rights, Government, Punishment

  Letter to James Madison, 30 Jan. 1787

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• I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind of a strip. It's the only way that you can survive when you have to do something every day. You have to put yourself, all of your thoughts, all of your observations and everything you know into the strip.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Character, Writing, Thinking

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• Painting is a science pursued as an enquiry into the laws of nature...Observation is considered the key to natural science.

  Bridget Riley

  Keys, Law, Enquiry

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