Quotes About Analysis

My experience at Trinity points up one big difference between Islam and Christianity: Islam shuns a critique of the Quran. If you ask the hard questions of the Quran, you risk being branded, and, in some cases, you even risk your life. The Christian, however, has always been willing to subject the Bible to the severest analysis and is able to come out, knowing that it can survive the blade of the skeptic.

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.

After all, each story is a Rorschach Test, isn't it? And if people find beasties and bedbugs in my ink-splotches, I cannot prevent it, can I? They will insist on seeing them, anyway, and that is their privilege. Still, I wish people, quasi-intellectuals, did not try so hard to find the man under the old maid's bed. More often than not, as we know, he simply isn't there.

Others have criticized, and they have criticized themselves, into embarrassment.

True, we might form classes in thinking and reading.

are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog, which the pitiless cold blasts of the father's analysis had blown away from the son.

He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it. Yossarian

If you detect a needlessly complex style when you read, look for characters and actions so that you can unravel for yourself the complexity the writer needlessly inflicted on you.

Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.

Any well-written memoir is worth perusing with an eye to its structure.

Self-revelation without analysis or understanding becomes merely an embarrassment to both reader and writer.

Some Heisenberg principle frustrates critics who try to analyze how stories are written. Whatever they can analyze has to be dead before it can be dissected.

According to the Buddha, there are four ways of treating questions: (1) Some should be answered directly; (2) others should be answered by way of analysing them; (3) yet others should be answered by counter-questions; (4) and lastly, there are questions which should be put aside.1

We have nearly lost our capacity to think ihcologicafly about public issues and public problems.

Until that moment of utterance, every objective analysis of economic production in Egypt would have concluded that the pain of the peasants is a necessary, normal, even natural arrangement of labor—the cost of doing business.

One of the things that economics brings to the analysis is explicit recognition that people will not engage in activities—including racial discrimination—no matter what the cost.

The Study of Society: A Unified Approach. The

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

There is economy in this. For the attempt to see all things freshly and in detail, rather than as types and generalities, is exhausting, and among busy affairs practically out of the question. In

Un pensamiento sin conciencia de sus limitaciones es un pensamiento incompleto. Mantener una actitud crítica saludable significa no aceptar ideas o doctrinas sin haberlas sometido antes a un análisis cuidadoso donde se pueda evaluar su verdad, su falsedad o las dudas que de ellas surgen. Las personas que no le temen a la crítica son inconformistas y poseen la dosis de incredulidad necesaria para acceder a todo tipo de información sin escandalizarse ni ofenderse.

La duda es uno de los nombres de la inteligencia. JORGE LUIS BORGES

Titubear sin angustia, tantear, cuestionar o sospechar no son defectos, forman parte de una mente escudriñadora y naturalmente incrédula e inconformista.

Great questioners "keep looking"—at a situation or a problem, at the ways people around them behave, at their own behaviors. They study the small details; and they look for not only what's there but what's missing. They step back, view things sideways, squint if necessary.

in addition to asking what went wrong, you should also ask, In this failure, what went right? (Conversely, when you try out something and it seems to have succeeded, look for what went wrong or could have been better