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A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth.
A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning lead to truth.
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.
We cannot create observers by saying "observe," but by giving them the power and the means for this observation and read more
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
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.
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.
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the read more
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed
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.
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if read more
This inescapable duty to observe oneself: if someone else is observing me, naturally I have to observe myself too; if none observe me, I have to observe myself all the closer