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Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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Observation over many years has taught us that the chief losses to investors come from the purchase of low-quality securities at times of favorable business conditions.
The Intelligent Investor Ch. 20, Margin of Safety: The Central Concept, p. -
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
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People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.
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Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.
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Science is simply common sense at its best-that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
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Tax dollars intended for science education must not be used to teach creationism as any sort of real explanation of nature, because any observation or process of inference about our origin and the nature of the universe disproves creationism in every respect.
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That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.
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The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.
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The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the world's eye.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I've learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.
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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.
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The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
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There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works.
Interview ABC World News (7 June 2010) -
To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.
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To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost - that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization - is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.
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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
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