O Quotes
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“Observations are determined by the ability to fully perceive actually what exists rather that what is believed or desired to be real.”
Source: Life Is A Cocktail
“Observations in cosmology look just as they can be expected to look if there is no God.”
Source: God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
“Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.”
“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.”
“Observations not only disturb what is to be measured, they produce it.”
“Observations of life render the best quotes.”
“Observations of the sickening effect of programmed environments show that people in them become indolent, impotent, narcissistic and apolitical. The political process breaks down, because people cease to be able to govern themselves; they demand to be managed.”
Source: In the Mirror of the Past: Lectures and Addresses, 1978-1990
“Observations,” he says. “Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes.” They’d been standing, armed, at the dock doors, overseeing the delivery. He gives me a sidewise look. “Wow. That was, like, a whole sentence. With nouns and verbs and connective tissue. Endemic. Fancy word.”
Source: Iced: Fever Series
“OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost”
Source: The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne ...: To which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, Studies, and Writings
“Observe a method in the distribution of your time. Every hour will then know its proper employment, and no time will be lost. Idleness will be shut out at every avenue, and with her that numerous body of vices that make up her train.”
“Observe a pomegranate - a tough shell protects the most delicious, delicate layered and beautiful jewel-like seeds that glow in the sunlight. But when the pomegranate falls to the ground, it will never be the same again, much like Alzheimer's and Dementia.”
“Observe & accept what ever arises & know that everything is as it needs to be.”
Source: Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living
“Observe all men, thyself most.”
Source: Poor Richard's Almanack
“Observe always that everything is the result of a change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and to make new ones like them.”
“Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.”
Source: Meditations
“Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be.”
“Observe and gradually you will come to see that all existence is occurring in empty awareness.”
“Observe and learn from stronger and better people than yours instead of laughing and pulling legs of poor and weak than yours.”
“Observe and stay aware.”
“Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.”
Source: The Works of Lord Chesterfield: Including His Letters to His Son, Etc : to which is Prefixed, an Original Life of the Author
“Observe, author and publish.”
“Observe before listening, listen before speaking, speak before acting.”
“Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.”
“Observe, carefully.
What flows in your direction without much effort, is yours. What flows in your direction with heavy experiences, is yours.
Choose, carefully.”
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.”
Source: Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion
“Observe constantly that all things take place by change.”
Source: Meditations
“Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.”
“Observe due measure, for timing is in all things the most important factor.”
“Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.”
“Observe everything silently, like a little bird! This invites the angels of wisdom!”
“Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.”
“Observe, experiment, imagine and publish.”
“Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.”
“Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?”
Source: Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States of America: Published in September, 1796
“Observe him, as his watch observes his clock, and true as turquoise in the dear lord's ring, looks well or ill with him.”
Source: Sejanus
“Observe how endings become beginnings.”
“Observe how gently but surely the natural world renews itself daily.”
“Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with- their "loved ones" or friends or business associates or political rulers- are not merely mistaken, but evil. Observe that this dread leads them to sanction, to help and to spread the very evil whose existence they fear to acknowledge.”
Source: Ayn Rand Reader
“Observe how women defeat each other; whether it's simply for a promotion, for a husband, for survival, so she won't be beaten up in a relationship. She has to now fear every other woman because every woman represents a threat to her.”
“Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings, washed, combed, and in their Sunday best.... They are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality... They simply look out of place in black clothes and stiff collar, since clearly they belong in skins, in wattled huts at the close of the Great Ice Age. These ox-like men are descendants of those who always stayed behind.”
“Observe it, the vulgar often laugh, but never smile, whereas well-bred people often smile, and seldom or never laugh. A witty thing never excited laughter, it pleases only the mind and never distorts the countenance.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“Observe more, do less.
Do less, enjoy more.”
“Observe, observe.”
“Observe people with cool eyes, listen to their words with cool ears. Confront feelings with cool emotions, reflect on principles with a cool mind.”
“Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.”
“Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices - wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices.”
“Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.”
Source: The Portable Voltaire
“Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable.”
Source: Plato: The Complete Works: From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias
“Observe that the body of man is confined to a small place; it covers only two spans of earth. But the spirit and mind of man travel to all countries and regions - even through the limitless space of the heavens - surround all that exists, and make discoveries in the exalted spheres and infinite distances. This is because the spirit has no place; it is placeless; and for the spirit the earth and the heaven are as one since it makes discoveries in both.”