Quotes by Understanding Coming from an athletic background, the scientific aspect is a really big part of understanding beauty and how the body works. Erin Heatherton body-workathleticunderstanding There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other. Eric Hoffer politicalunderstandinglife All of physics is either impossible or trivial. It is impossible until you understand it, and then it becomes trivial. Ernest Rutherford engineeringunderstandingscience We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. Erich Fromm understandingdreamsleep Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. Erich Fromm understandingjudgingmean If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former. Ernest Sosa latterjustificationunderstanding Intuitive seeming is in my view an attraction to assent based on nothing more than understanding of the content that upon consideration attracts one's assent. But such understanding-based attraction can differ dramatically in epistemic quality. Some such attractions represent nothing more than superstition or bias absorbed from the culture, sans ratiocination. Ernest Sosa qualityunderstandingviews Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while. Ernie Pyle understandingtwopeople Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts Ernst Mayr societyunderstandingdiscovery Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts- particularly difficult concepts- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows. Ernst Mayr difficultdefinitionsunderstanding If you say that you reject violence when it exceeds the limits imposed by the needs of defense, they accuse you of pacifism, without understanding that violence is the whole essence of authoritarianism, just as the repudiation of violence is the whole essence of anarchism. Errico Malatesta understandingessenceneeds The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it. Errol Morris errorsunderstandingworld Every day we make more progress toward understanding the concert hall. Esa-Pekka Salonen live-concertsprogressunderstanding Feminism is a belief that although women and men are inherently of equal worth, most societies privilege men as a group. As a result, social movements are necessary to achieve political equality between women and men, with the understanding that gender always intersects with other social hierarchies. Estelle Freedman politicalunderstandingmen The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out. Ethel Barrymore generationsunderstandingart The term 'cyberutopian' tends to be used only in the context of critique. Calling someone a cyberutopian implies that he or she has an unrealistic and naively overinflated sense of what technology makes possible and an insufficient understanding of the forces that govern societies. Ethan Zuckerman technologyunderstandingcalling Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question. Etienne Gilson understandingdoescience The first act of insight is throw away the labels. Eudora Welty labelsunderstandingfirsts Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within. Eudora Welty snapshotsluckyunderstanding Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience. Eugene Gendlin reportsunderstandingphilosophy«4546474849505152535455»
