"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."
"The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it."
"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."
"We must look a long time before we can see"
"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."
"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."
"Is there an observation which is not the instrument of thought?"
"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."