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Letter "U" » Understanding
«Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Judgement,
Psychology,
Self awareness,
Understanding
| Keywords:
irritate, irritated, irritates, lead, understanding
«He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.»
«For those of you who don't understand Reaganomics, it's based on the principle that the rich and the poor will get the same amount of ice. In Reaganomics, however, the poor get all of theirs in winter.»
«For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.»
Author: Robert Penn Warren
| About:
Autobiography,
Poetry,
Understanding
| Keywords:
hazardous, poem
«Everything we enjoy in society is a direct result of the accumulated learning derived from millions of mistakes. No mistakes, no progress. Yet we still look at making a mistake as embarrassing, wrong, an act bordering on sin. If you?re making mistakes, it means you?re doing new things, taking risks, stretching yourself. You?re growing, learning. And isn't the journey, the experience, not the destination, what life is all about?»
«I think there is a good reason why the propaganda system works that way. It recognizes that the public will not support the actual policies. Therefore it is important to prevent any knowledge or understanding of them.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky
(Activist, Linguist)
| About:
Deception,
Knowledge,
Propaganda,
Understanding
«Human beings have used their incredible abilities to develop a staggering array of limiting beliefs, justifications and excuses for every occasion. What a waste!»
«I keep repeating that people are not stupid, and we're not. For every destructive emotion and limiting belief we hang onto, there are payoffs, hidden benefits. Why else would we hold onto them?»
Author: Robert White
| About:
Understanding
«Ideals are an imaginative understanding of that which is desirable in that which is possible.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Ideals,
Understanding
| Keywords:
desirable, imaginative
«For the world is not to be narrowed till it will go into the understanding (which has been done hitherto), but the understanding is to be expanded and opened till it can take in the image of the world»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Understanding,
World
| Keywords:
expanded, hitherto, narrowed, take in
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