Quotes by Understanding Psychobabble is... a set of repetitive verbal formalities that kills off the very spontaneity, candor, and understanding it pretends to promote. It's an idiom that reduces psychological insight to a collection of standardized observations, that provides a frozen lexicon to deal with an infinite variety of problems. Richard Rosen jargonfrozenunderstanding I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile! Richard P. Feynman understandinginspirationalpeople Start out understanding religion by saying everything is possibly wrong... As soon as you do that, you start sliding down an edge which is hard to recover from. Richard P. Feynman atheismunderstandingreligion Metaphors are fine if they aid understanding, but sometimes they get in the way. Richard Dawkins understandingsometimesway Allow the information to tell you how it wants to be displayed. As architecture is ‘frozen music’, information architecture is ‘frozen conversation’. Any good conversation is based on understanding. Richard Saul Wurman frozeninformationunderstanding I like to question the minutia, to get to the essence of things. The minutia of life is all about design. It's about the design of how you talk to another human being; it's the design of speech; it's the design of everything we do. We need to be better at listening, and we need to aim more directly at understanding and being understood. Richard Saul Wurman designunderstandingessence People who wish to analyze nature without using mathematics must settle for a reduced understanding. Richard P. Feynman understandingwishpeople What has happened is that genetics has become a branch of information technology. It is pure information. It's digital information. It's precisely the kind of information that can be translated digit for digit, byte for byte, into any other kind of information and then translated back again. This is a major revolution. I suppose it's probably "the" major revolution in the whole history of our understanding of ourselves. It's something would have boggled the mind of Darwin, and Darwin would have loved it, I'm absolutely sure. Richard Dawkins technologyunderstandingmind You can be interested in a Jane Smiley novel whether or not anyone says a word. She enters into her characters thoughts with great understanding and depth. Richard Russo depthunderstandingcharacter Order is no guarantee of understanding. Sometimes just the opposite is true. Richard Saul Wurman understandingoppositesorder The female mind is capable of understanding analytic geometry... The difficulty may just be that we have never yet discovered a way to communicate with the female mind. If it is done in the right way, you may be able to get something out of it. Richard P. Feynman femaleunderstandingmind The electron is a theory we use; it is so useful in understanding the way nature works that we can almost call it real. Richard P. Feynman understandingrealmath What has God given you? Moses had a stick, David had a slingshot, and Paul had a pen. Mother Richard Stearns understandingmotherletting-go The Christian will desire to see the beauty of God in his house, that his soul might be ravished in the excellency of the object, and that the highest powers of his soul, his understanding, will, and affections might be fully satisfied, that he might have full contentment. Richard Sibbes understandingchristianhouse One cannot understand... the universality of laws of nature, the relationship of things, without an understanding of mathematics. There is no other way to do it. Richard P. Feynman understandinglawway There could be something incredibly grand and incomprehensible and beyond our present understanding. Richard Dawkins understanding Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school. Ralph Waldo Emerson understandingteacherschool Agreement is the by-product of listening and understanding. Richard Tyler understandingagreementlistening Not forgiving prolongs hurt and anger and leads to smoldering resentment, which will make us miserable until it kills us. Resentment destroys the perception of reality. As we try to bend the world to accommodate our resentment, fear, and selfishness, we become less accurate in understanding the world. This eventually destroys our ability to cope successfully with life. Richard Walters understandinghurtreality Faith is seated in the understanding as well as in the will. It has an eye to see Christ as well as a wing to fly to Christ. Richard Watson understandingeyewings«142143144145146147148149150151152»
