quotations about understanding
It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK
Choke
The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
ALBERT CAMUS
The Plague
Be it assembling a model airplane, baking a cake or choosing flowers and shrubs for the garden, reading and understanding is necessary to achieve success. Most people would think that nothing could be simpler than reading the picture tag slipped in the side of a pot at a garden center's display, but without understanding, simple instructions can lead to failure.
LEEANN BARTON
"In the Garden: Understanding Labels", Stillwater News Press, April 23, 2017
If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
1Q84
Treat people with understanding when you can, and fake it when you can't until you do understand.
KIM HARRISON
Rules of the Game: Discover, Learn, Invent The Art of Speeding Up Your Career
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
MARIE CURIE
attributed, Our Precarious Habitat
Could ... dogmatical reasoners become sensible of the strange infirmities of human understanding, even in its most perfect state, and when most accurate and cautious in its determinations; such a reflection would naturally inspire them with more modesty and reserve, and diminish their fond opinion of themselves, and their prejudice against antagonists.
DAVID HUME
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
The gap between scientific consensus and public understanding is tricky. For one thing, it's among the reasons we can't muster a sustained global effort to combat climate change. And it turns out, the gap can't be closed with more facts. Culture and past experience shape our worldviews more than objective evidence. The phenomenon is called "cultural cognition," and it's why a full third of people doubt humans have evolved over time despite the 98 per cent of scientists who agree on evolution.
MARC & CRAIG KIELBURGER
"Global Voices: Close gap between science, public understanding", Times Colonist, April 16, 2017
Understanding is wider than knowledge.
ELENA BORISOVA & OLGA SOULEIMANOVA
Understanding by Communication
The best way to understand something is to try to change it.
JEROME BRUNER
New York Times, June 7, 2016