All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.
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.
Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science.
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.
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.
Nothing has such power to broaden the mind as the ability to investigate systematically and truly all that comes under thy observation in life.
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.
All perceiving is also thinking, all reasoning is also intuition, all observation is also invention.
Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.
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.
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.
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.