#observation

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#equivalent #observation #thinking

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#comet #cooper #elements #get #i

I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#all day #almost #am #day #fatigue

First, I used some of my own experiences and observations from attending a public high school. Secondly, I joined in some Internet chat rooms for gays and lesbians. ↗

— Ellen Muth

#chat #experiences #first #gays #high

I thought, gazing at the beauty of the landscape again, it is as though the fiend has prevailed against the angels, and fixed his throne in a heaven, to rule it as though it were Hell. ↗

— Tom Holland

#contrast #evil #good-and-evil #heaven-and-hell #observation

Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity. ↗

— Ellen Key

#duty #fidelity #itself #liberty #observation

[The American President] has to take all sorts of abuse from liars and demagogues.… The people can never understand why the President does not use his supposedly great power to make ’em behave. Well, all the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#democracy-fascism #democracy-freedom #democracy-voting #democrats #elections

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

#become #individual #individual men #industry #men

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. ↗

— Adam Smith

#after #changes #detail #doing #facts

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

— Marcus Aurelius

#ability #broaden #comes #investigate #life