Observation is the action or process of closely observing or monitoring something or someone.

1. A friend hath the skill and observation of the best physician, the diligence and vigilance of the best nurse, and the tenderness and patience of the best mother
Clarendon

2. Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it’s not jokes that are funny, it’s characters that are funny. And isn’t that true! That’s why I always kill jokes. I’m terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can’t get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon.
David Mitchell

3. Sometimes it is the quiet observer who sees the most.
Kathryn L. Nelson

4. You can observe a lot by just watching.
Yogi Berra

5. A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
Alexis Carrel

6. By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe
Yukio Mishima

7. My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty… it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.
George Washington

8. Observe always that everything is the result of change.
Marcus Aurelius

9. Use your five senses. Learn to see, learn to hear, learn to feel, learn to smell, and know that by practice alone you can become expert.
William Osler

10. Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.
Denis Diderot

11. Seeing our nature.. the practice of observing nature better prepares us to observe our own nature and character. It allows the invisible to become visible and leaves us with a greater appreciation of its beauty and our interconnectedness with all things.
UTA

12. Teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age
Anonymous

13. The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Arthur Conan Doyle

14. Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Walter Winchell

15. Meditation Is A Beautiful Observation Of The Moment Bring Your Thoughts To Your Higher Self,and open your mind to your God.
David Cunliffe

16. People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers

17. Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
Robert Green Ingersoll

18. The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw

19. Observation is an old man's memory.
Jonathan Swift

20. Powers of Observation… what are we observing? What is or what is not? What we see, touch, hear, smell and taste?….
Anonymous

21. I love Observing People.
Liv Tyler

22. People don’t tell me what I need to hear. I listen to the unsaid words, observe quietly, read the unspoken words between the lines. The words they think they hide from me. This kind of listening is an art in itself.
Raging Rhetoric

23. I love documentaries, I like observing real people.
Tracey Ullman

24. Writing is one-third imagination, one-third experience, and one third observation.
William Faulkner

25. Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.
George Meredith

26. Facts have to be discovered by observation, not by reasoning.
Bertrand Russell

27. People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
Will Rogers

28. You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.
Tsitst Dangarembga

29. Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Thomas Huxley

30. Criticism is not construction, it is observation.
George William Curtis

31. The highest spiritual practice is self-observation without judgement.
Swami Kripalu

32. Rather than the kind of change that takes what we already have and augments it, like power to our cars and speed to our computers, I believe the kind of change we need now is a change of direction.
Elchi Lee

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33. Well, my observation is ticklish.
Ministry (Quick Fix by Ministry)

34. Let observation with extensive view Survey mankind, from China to Peru.
Samuel Johnson

35. I belong to those theoreticians who know by direct observation what it means to make a measurement. Methinks it were better if there were more of them.
Erwin Schrodinger

36. Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
Amos Bronson Alcott

37. Observation is education.
Jose B. Cabajar

38. 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

39. If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed. Ernest Hemingway

40. 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

41. It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
Spike Lee

42. What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning.
Werner Heisenberg

43. Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.
Robert Delaunay

44. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.
Moslih Eddin Saadi

45. To observe people in conflict is a necessary part of a child’s education. FrIdAy. |. FAmIly. It helps him to understand and accept his own occasional hostilities and to realize that differing opinions need not imply an absence of love.
Milton R. Sapirstein

46. If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
Robert Baden-Powell

47. Sometime you have to sit back… watch… and observe. People will show you who they are without you saying a word
Anonymous

48. I just sit back & observe. You learn more that way
Anonymous

49. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings
Anonymous

50. Master the art of observing
Anonymous

51. Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
Gao Xingjian

52. Observation without evaluation is the highest form of intelligence.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

53. Observation – activity of both eyes and ears.
Horace Mann

54. Beauty is hidden in everything, just learn how to observe
Anonymous

55. It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford

56. They (teenage boys)don't really listen to speeches or talks. They absorb incrementally, through hours and hours of observation.
Rob Lowe

57. You can learn new things from anyone, but choose people who teach you in a positive way rather than a negative one. Some lessons are better learned through..
Anonymous

58. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions.
Mos Def

59. To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

60. When you observe rather than react, you reclaim your power.
Denise Linn

61. You can observe a lot by just watching.
Yogi Berra

62. Sometimes you need to look at life from a different perspective
Anonymous

63. The silent ones are the most observant ones
Anonymous