Quotes About Understanding

A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, a flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

One doesn't need telepathy to read your intentions.

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

She's the One all right," she muttered. "Poor thing.

So I quoted the First Law of Mentat at her: 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't understand about an ecosystems is that it is a system…that's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

It should be one of the tests," the old woman said. "Humans are almost always lonely.

attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Now, watch these matters closely for I wish to see this room later through your wisdom.

If we cannot adjust our differences peaceably, then we are less than human

I'm like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness—until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. The thought hung in her mind, an enclosing awareness. And I say: "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?

La esperanza ofusca la observación.

The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.

you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? What is there around us that we cannot—

Kad sam se školovao za mentata...Bilo je vrlo teško, Alija, nau?iti kako rabiti vlastiti um. Prvo nau?iš dopuštati umu samostalno djelovanje. To je vrlo ?udno. Ti možeš rabiti svoje miši?e, vježbati ih, oja?avati, ali um radi sam od sebe. Ponekad, nakon što ve? nau?iš to o umu, on ti pokazuje stvari koje ne želiš vidjeti.

Postoje stvari koje rije?i ne mogu objasniti. Moraš ih doživjeti bez rije?i.

Previše znanja nikad ne dopušta jednostavne odluke.

Mentats cultivated naivete. Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know.

Leto smiled. "Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?

Paul sat back. He had used the questions and hyperawareness to do what his mother called "registering" the person. He had Kynes now—tone of voice, each detail of face and gesture.

To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.

but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future.

The most perfect barrier to learning a thing is the belief that is it already known

What are you saying? Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' Moneo opened his mouth but closed it without speaking. 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves. Moneo! Uncover yourself!