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To him that watches, everything is revealed.
To him that watches, everything is revealed.
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
We don't know who discovered water, but we know it wasn't the fish.
One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.
One must always tell what one sees. Above all, which is more difficult, one must always see what one sees.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under read more
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything read more
The observation of others is coloured by our inability to observe ourselves impartially. We can never be impartial about anything until we can be impartial about our own organism.
One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have read more
One must talk about everything according to its nature, how it comes to be and how it grows. Men have talked about the world without paying attention to the world of their own minds, as if they were asleep or absent-minded.
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape read more
Cultivated men and women who do not skim the cream of life, and are attached to the duties, yet escape the harder blows, make acute and balanced observers.
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail read more
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And, because we fail to notice that we fail to notice, there is little we can do to change until we notice how our failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.