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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

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.

For this reason, the expansion of relations with all countries is on the agenda of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I mean balanced relationships, based on mutual respect and observation of each other's rights.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.

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.

Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.

Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.

Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.

The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Direct observation of the luminous essence of nature is for me indispensable.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.