Quotes About Context

Understand the poem not the poet.

Don't believe on, "143 in written, " Because words contribute only 7% in communication!

The absence of a message sometimes is a presence of one.

Commitment is Circumstances

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in light of the information available until that point

It is just that narrative can be lethal when used in the wrong places.

Humans somehow fail to recognize situations outside the contexts in which they usually learn about them.

A mistake is not something to be determined after the fact, but in the light of the information until that point.

you can always mention Wittgenstein since he is vague enough to always seem relevant

Wittgenstein is occasionally mentioned (you can always mention Wittgenstein since he is vague enough to always seem relevant).

domain-specific I mean that our reactions, our mode of thinking, our intuitions, depend on the context in which the matter is presented, what

So we can learn a lot from data—but not as much as we expect. Sometimes a lot of data can be meaningless; at other times one single piece of information can be very meaningful. It

With novelists, names and dates are wrong, the rest is true. With historians, names and dates are correct, the rest is false.

but there is no point reading too much into success stories because we do not see the full picture.

that a casino was precisely the venue not to pick for such a discussion

There is no absolute measure of good or bad. It is not what you are telling people, it is how you are saying it.

except to make fun of them or provide a historical reference.

While we have a highly unstable memory, a diary provides indelible facts recorded more or less immediately; it thus allows the fixation of an unrevised perception and enables us to later study events in their own context.

So not only can the past be misleading, but there are also many degrees of freedom in our interpretation of past events.

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.

No son las palabras, ¡es lo que implica!

There's the answer, but an answer means nothing if the world doesn't first hear the question.

Even on the worst days, details of her old life seemed like a museum exhibition, artifacts to study and understand in historical context.

En un mundo de infinitas opciones, el contexto —no el contenido— es el rey.