Quotes About Understanding

There is a real situation, that can't be denied, but it is too big for any individual to know in full, and so we must create our understanding by way of an act of the imagination.

Why have a word for something they'd never seen?

ease of representation. It's always more than what you see, bigger than what you know. That said, people in this era did do it.

texts are written for people to read later.

Sheer dumb sentience.

This is the thing itself, there are no words for this. This is what words ask for.

Always they argued. Neither conceded anything, no compromises were made, nothing was ever accomplished. They argued using the same words to mean different things, and scarcely even spoke to one another. Once it had been different, very long ago, when they had argued in the same language, and understood each other.

here's the genuine thoughtfulness and deep consideration for sake of truth and meaningful understanding. There's the recognition that if there were simple answers, we'd have already implemented simple solutions – and that not being the case, people have to work hard to discover the best - imperfect but with iteration ever-less flawed - courses of action and forget the pedantic and simple-minded debate points that so often mar discussions that should lead to progress.

historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation

Why don't you like it when you can't say why?

It was hard for her not to feel that a person loving her was making a big mistake. Because she knew herself better than they did, so knew their love was given in error.

From the road he wrote bitterly to Sagredo: Of all the hatreds, none is greater than that of ignorance for knowledge.

We remember more than we think we do. More than we want to, sometimes.

It took knowing every rock and plant and animal and fish and bird, that was the way they did it. You had to love the land the way you loved yourself. Because it was you anyway. It took knowing all the other parts of yourself so well that nothing was misunderstood or exploited.

Reality is mathematical, as long as you understand that uncertainty and contingency can be mathematically described, without them becoming any more certain.

To conclude and temporarily halt this train of thought, how does any entity know what it is? Hypothesis: by the actions it performs. There is a kind of comfort in this hypothesis. It represents a solution to the halting problem. One acts, and thus finds out what one has decided to do.

Wisdom is always wont to arrive late, and to be a little approximate on first possession. supposed Francis Spufford

Knowledge is important, but much more important is the use toward which it is put. This depends on the heart and mind of the one who uses it.

Nadia shook her head, marveling at the capacity people had for ignoring what they had in common, and fighting bitterly over whatever small differences existed between them. She

Science was a social construct, but it was also and most importantly its own space, conforming to reality only; that was its beauty.

Group dynamics were complex at best, even (he grimaced) unexplainable.

They would understand the fundamental laws of the universe before they had even the slightest handle on society.

get in touch with him at all. But then, like clockwork, he would finally call her back the next morning, waking her up and apologizing for dropping off to sleep a lot earlier than usual or for not seeing that she had called him until that very moment.

And after I told my six-year-old, grandma died in the accident, after tears and questions she suggested, maybe now is a good time to explain what the man has to do with babies. So i chose one perfect lily from that vase and with the tip of a paring knife slit open the pistil to trace the passage pollen makes to the egg cell- the eggs i then slipped out and dotted on her fingertips, their greenish-white translucent as the air in this blizzard that cannot cool the unbearable heart.