“’When it comes to understanding others,’ I said, ‘we rarely tax our imaginations.’” — Lawrence Hill, Someone Knows My Name
Tag: understanding
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“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” — Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928)
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“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.” — Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge
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“A stupid man’s report of what a clever man says is never accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something that he can understand.” — Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy
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“What you say is not nearly as important as what we hear.” — Seth Godin, “Different people hear differently”
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“We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand.” — Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
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“Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge; it requires no accountability, no understanding.” — Bill Bullard, “For the Faculty,” Commencement 2007, San Francisco University High School
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“The average man is prone to scoff at what he cannot understand.” — Harold Ward, “The Strange Story of Martin Colby,” The Black Mask (August 1920)
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“The prudent man always studies seriously and earnestly to understand whatever he professes to understand, and not merely to persuade other people that he understands it.” — Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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“You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.” — Eric Mazur, From Questions to Concepts
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