Pastoral Resources

Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

The service of philosophy, of speculative culture, towards the human spirit, is to rouse, to startle it to a life of constant and eager observation.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation.

There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can only be understood as interconnections between the preparation of an experiment and the subsequent measurement.

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.

Where conscious subjectivity is concerned, there is no distinction between the observation and the thing observed.

Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.

The first, or theoretic branch, that which explains the nature, production, and distribution of wealth, will be found to rest on a very few general propositions, which are the result of observation, or consciousness.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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

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.

The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.

It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out.

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.