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“If novels and stories are bulletins from the progressive states of ignorance a writer passes through over the years, observations and opinions about horses are all the more so, since horses are more mysterious than life and harder to understand.”

Ifs Years States Stories Opinion Novel Ignorance Horse Harder Mysterious Observation Progressive

Book:A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

Source: A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck

“Persons without education certainly do not want either acuteness or strength of mind in what concerns themselves, or in things immediately within their observation; but they have no power of abstraction, no general standard of taste, or scale of opinion. They see their objects always near, and never in the horizon. Hence arises that egotism which has been remarked as the characteristic of self-taught men.”

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“My observation continues to confirm me more and more in the opinion, that to experience religion is to experience the truth of the great doctrines of Divine grace.”

Opinion Grace Divine Doctrine Observation Divine Grace

Book:A PASTOR'S SKETCHES

Source: A PASTOR'S SKETCHES

“Individuality in opinion, or, what is more, in thinking, is simply one with thinking at all; for he who thinks thereby looks at the thing or the fact itself and takes its measure by observation directly, not content with the measures of others.”

Thinking Looks Facts Opinion Individuality Observation

Author:James Vila Blake

“If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.”

Ifs Men Church Opinion Pieces Window Observation Altars

Book:Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

Source: Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature

“Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary to excel in either; which, in my opinion, is by no means the case of music, though called a liberal art, and now in Italy placed even above the other two--a proof of the decline of that country.”

Mean Art Two Country Together Artist Strong Imagination Music Opinion Cases Painting Musician Proof Observation Decline Sculpture Lively Liberal Arts

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“From hence, no question, has sprung an observation ... confirmed now into a settled opinion, that some long experienced souls in the world, before their dislodging, arrive to the height of prophetic spirits.”

World Long Soul Spirit Opinion Observation Height Prophecy Prophetic Sprung

Book:In Praise of Folly

Source: In Praise of Folly

“Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and continuous observations. By persistent, I mean not only continuous work, but also not giving up your opinion at the bidding of such and such a person.”

Giving Mean Persons Art Opinion Demand Giving Up Observation Spite Not Giving Up Persistent Bidding

Author:Vincent Van Gogh