"I'm always saying something that's just the edge of something more."
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"Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another."
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"The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it."
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"Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly."
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"We must look a long time before we can see"
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"Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe."
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"We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else."
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"Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?"
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"It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student."
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