“Amusement to an observing mind is study.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Part 1, Chapter 23.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)

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British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Pri… 1804–1881

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“Nobody observes you and studies you as much as your enemy.”

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“The Chinese novel was written primarily to amuse the common people. And when I say amuse I do not mean only to make them laugh, though laughter is also one of the aims of the Chinese novel. I mean amusement in the sense of absorbing and occupying the whole attention of the mind. I mean enlightening that mind by pictures of life and what that life means.”

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“To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.”

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“There is another kind of studies which distinguished from the sometimes opposed to comparative grammar. It is known under the name of general or philosophical grammar, whose principles and observations were articulated by Port Royal and which deals with the relation of the form of language to the operations of the mind.”

Michel Bréal (1832–1915) French philologist

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“Reality becomes illusory and observer-oriented when you study general relativity. Or Buddhism. Or get drafted.”

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“Nobody forbade me from observing the potteries in the pottery yard but no archaeologist was there to help me in my study.”

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“One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.”

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“In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.”

Louis Pasteur (1822–1895) French chemist and microbiologist

Dans les champs de l'observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits préparés.
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Alternate translations of this or similar statements include:
Chance favors the prepared mind.
Fortune favors the prepared mind.
In the field of observation, chance favors the prepared mind.
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

“Amusement to an observing mind is study.”

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