Quotes About Understanding

Harpaz argumenta que las escuelas tienen que convertir lo extraño en algo conocido para presentar a los alumnos conocimientos nuevos, pero también volver lo familiar extraño, que incomode y desafíe las ideas simples y las respuestas insustanciales, un proceso delicado que tiene que detenerse justo cuando esté a punto de que el receptor adopte una postura defensiva rotunda.

In teaching for truly lifeworthy learning, might we hope to teach for wisdom?

Be civilized. Grudges are for Neanderthals. – Hubert Humphrey

Hate the injustice not the unjust man, even though that shit is hard.

I am blessed to travel this country to talk about racism. Yes, its a blessing, but in every place someone says, 'If you stop talking about race, racism will go away.' That doesn't even make stupid sense. The reality is that we talk about race all the time, in corridors, in offices, at ballgames, but we do not often talk about it in places where our ideas are challenged."

Standing on someone you knocked down does not make you taller.

Like my father, Donor White could hold in his head the incompatible demands of rationality and irrationality, of facts and love.

I actually prefer Abby," she said. "I'm sorry?" "Nobody calls me Abigail unless it's my mom and she's mad.

it seeks to 'fix' our understanding, but at the same time it reveals how any such fixity, and such desire for stability and certainty, is constructed on shifting sands.

A common error about metaphor is to suppose that it can be in some sense 'unpacked'. When that unpacking takes place, what is left is rarely of any value; it seems a paltry and colourless thing when compared to the metaphor itself.

Does metaphor mean something more than, or different form, or in some sense beneath, what it appears to say; or is the meaning of a metaphor precisely what it does say.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it

The purpose of this book is not to make you more worried. The purpose of this book is to make you more smart.

Numbers can be an important aspect of understanding infectious disease. Take measles. At first glance, it might seem nonmathematical. It's caused by a paramyxovirus

Mathematics to me is like a language I don't speak though I admire its literature in translation.

Everything important we learn too late.

People at the Neutral level are easy to get along with and safe to associate with because they are not interested in conflict, competition, or guilt.

The only necessary key to understanding the Bible is to approach it with a humble and contrite heart softened by the Holy Spirit, ready to listen to what God says, and just as ready to obey him. The

Too many of us unconsciously believe that a well-studied understanding of our cultural context, rather than the Bible, is the key to preaching with power.

You may suppose that time is only passing-away, and do not understand that time never arrives. . . . People only see time's coming and going, and do not thoroughly understand that being-time abides in each moment. Being-time has the quality of flowing. . . . Because flowing is a quality of time, moments of past and present do not overlap or line up side by side.

People are really trying their best. Just like being happy and sad, you will find yourself on both sides of the equation many times over your lifetime, either saying or hearing the wrong thing. Let's all give each other a pass, shall we?

There is nothing so cleansing or reassuring as a vicarious sadness.

We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.

You show how much you love someone by being there for them when they need you, by knowing what they need and anticipating those needs.