Observer Quotes

That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

General Custer was a close observer and student of personal character.

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.

But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake.

A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

So for instance it becomes clear why space and time and even the properties of matter itself depend on the observer in consciousness. In fact when you take this point of view it even explains why the laws of the universe themselves are fine tuned for the existence of life.

You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

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.

What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.

The universe as we know it is a joint product of the observer and the observed.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

I am an Episcopalian who takes the faith of my fathers seriously, and I would, I think, be disheartened if my own young children were to turn away from the church when they grow up. I am also a critic of Christianity, if by critic one means an observer who brings historical and literary judgment to bear on the texts and traditions of the church.