A Quote by George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...
There is no power in cynicism. There is no forward thrust in cynicism.
We have three approaches at our disposal: the observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation serves to assemble the data, reflection to synthesise them and experimentation to test the results of the synthesis. The observation of nature must be assiduous, just as reflection must be profound, and experimentation accurate. These three approaches are rarely found together, which explains why creative geniuses are so rare.
It is just observation that the people commonly intend the Public Good.
Healthy scepticism is the basis of all accurate observation.
I think that citizens should be skeptical of government power. But I fear it's bled over to cynicism. It is something that is getting in the way of reasoned discussion, and I'm very concerned about how to change that trend of cynicism.
Because what I say from that podium has got to be accurate, and I'm the only one who's going to be held liable if it's not accurate.
What has commonly been called rebellion has more often been nothing but a manly and glorious struggle in opposition to the lawless power of rebellious kings and princes.
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.
Modern science is predicated on 'truths' verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
Modern science is predicated on "truths" verified through accurate observation and measurements of physical world phenomena.
With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.
Resistance is usually ascribed to bodies at rest, and impulse to those in motion, but motion and rest, as commonly conceived, are only relatively distinguished; nor are those bodies always truly at rest, which commonly are taken to be so.
Once we recognize the power of propaganda, we need to ask whether its exercise is consistent with those democratic ideals to which lip-service is commonly accorded.
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