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«A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.»
Author: Alexis Carrel
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a few, error, lead, observation, observations, reasoning, Truth by Reason
«Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheeplike passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.»
Author: John Dewey
(Educator, Philosopher, Psychologist)
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Conflict
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contrives, contriving, gadfly, invention, noting, observation, passivity, sets, sheeplike, shocks, stirs
«Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the cultivation of generosity as a vehicle for deep self-observation and inquiry as well as an exercise in giving. A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation-to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.»
Author: Jon Kabat-Zinn
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acceptance, blessings, cultivation, deserving, each day, exercise, experiment, foundation, generosity, gifts, inquiry, judging, letting, mindfulness, non, No Place to Go, obligation, observation, provides, self acceptance, solid, such as, using, vehicle
«Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.»
Author: Buddha
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Belief
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«From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
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Writers
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bleed, copiously, fall into, groups, observation, review, reviewed, reviewing, secretly, visibly, writers
«A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Criticism
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beauties, communicate, concealed, critic, dwell, excellencies, imperfections, observation
«How very seldom do you encounter in the world a man of great abilities, acquirements, experience, who will unmask his mind, unbutton his brains, and pour forth in careless and picturesque phrase all the results of his studies and observation; his knowledge of men, books, and nature. On the contrary, if a man has by any chance an original idea, he hoards it as if it were old gold; and rather avoids the subject with which he is most conversant, from fear that you may appropriate his best thoughts.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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abilities, acquirement, acquirements, appropriate, avoids, book of knowledge, Brain may, careless, conversant, encounter, hoard, hoarded, hoarding, hoards, observation, old gold, on the contrary, phrase, picturesque, pour, pour forth, studies, unbutton, unbuttoning, unmask, unmasked, unmasking, unmasks
«But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it»
Author: Buddha
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accept, after, agreeing, agrees, analysis, benefit, conducive, good and, Good Living, live up to, observation, One Good Reason, reason, to it, up to, with reason
«By my penny of observation.»
«A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others»
Author: William Faulkner
(Novelist, Writer)
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Writers
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Lack of imagination, observation, supply, The Others, writer
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