Quotes About Analysis

I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

A book is judged, not by its reference to life, but by its reference to other books.

Life, carefully examined, is actually a form of allegorical literature with a very tight constructural grid laid over it.

There is philosophy, which is about conceptual analysis - about the meaning of what we say - and there is all of this ... all of life.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Observations always involve theory.

But also, he doesn't like to let us off easy. He wants to make us think—even when we don't feel like thinking.

Thinking critically about why you assume what you assume can make you sensitive, over time, to the cultural mores you bring to the biblical text.

Science explained people, but could not understand them.

Science is better than sympathy, if only it is science.

It is pleasant to analyse feelings while they are still only feelings, and unembodied in the social fabric

Nowhere among the early Christians do we find the cold light of intellectual understanding that constantly analyzes and differentiates. Instead, there was the Spirit that burned within their hearts and made their souls alive. (Col. 2:8–10)

For many of those who are privileged enough to be in a position to try to analyse the important matters of big politics, the ordinary man's feeling of smallness and the rage it engenders are inaccessible, and so it is equally hard for them to comprehend how that smallness might desperately crave to be part of a we that promises greatness.

diagnosing a system just for the sake of diagnosis is not very helpful because in any complex system one can diagnose it from multiple points of view, just as a personality can be diagnosed from many points of view.

When you are giving feedback, try to be descriptive and minimize judgment.

Merely fact-minded sciences make merely fact-minded people.

Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals

The whole of science is merely a refinement of everyday thinking.

The whole of science is merely a refinement of everyday thinking. —Albert Einstein

Effective students and creative innovators regularly strive to uncover the unintended consequences of a lesson learned or a new idea.

The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.