Understanding Quotes - Page 24

• We are desperately in need of the kind of smart diplomacy that has worked for America in the past. If you use force, it should be a last resort. And it needs to be used with full understanding of the consequences.

  Hillary Clinton

  Smart, Past, America

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• It'll be taught in homes that it's not okay to make fun of a kid because he's gay or it's not okay to make fun of a girl cause she's fat. But that we have been living for so long in a culture where so many people's parents supported those beliefs that there wasn't any infrastructure for children understanding right and wrong in those situations, if that makes sense.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Fun, Children

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Burmese political culture lacks an understanding of negotiated compromise. We have to build up that kind of culture.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Political, Culture, Compromise

  Source: www.voanews.com

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• One has to bring the multidimensional impact that schooling makes in the lives of people. There's nothing like it, and I think the importance of it has to be shaken into people's understanding and determination.

  Amartya Sen

  Determination, Thinking, Impact

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The understanding that women are not inferior across the world, it's something that you can get from school, not only from the book but also from chatting with other kids. It's a big impact. One of the curious things is that even when - and this we found from studies - the schools are doing pretty badly in terms of their education, about mathematics and literature and language, going to school transformed people because I think the action of schooling, the activity, is very important.

  Amartya Sen

  Book, School, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We are nothing but the product of billions of years of molecules coming together and ratcheting up through natural selection, we are composed only of highways of fluids and chemicals sliding along roadways within billions of dancing cells, trillions of synaptic conversations hum in parallel, this vast egglike fabric of micron-thin circuitry runs algorithms undreamt of in modern science, and these neural programs give rise to our decision making, loves, desires, fears, and aspirations. That understanding would be a numinous experience, better than anything ever proposed in anyone's holy text.

  David Eagleman

  Running, Cells, Years

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

  David Eagleman

  Mind, Generations, Tools

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.232, Vintage

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• Knowing yourself now requires the understanding that the conscious you occupies only a small room in the mansion of the brain, and that it has little control over the reality constructed for you.

  David Eagleman

  Reality, Small Rooms, Knowing

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.209, Vintage

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• In our current understanding of science, we can't find the physical gap in which to slip free will - the uncaused causer - because there seems to be no part of the machinery that does not follow in a causal relationship from the other parts.

  David Eagleman

  Doe, Gaps, Free Will

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.175, Vintage

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• Orwell says straight, look, in England what comes out in a free country is not very different from this totalitarian monster that I'm describing in the book. It's more or less the same. How come in a free country? He has two sentences, which are pretty accurate. One, he says, the press is owned by wealthy men who have every reason not to want certain ideas to be expressed. And second - and I think this is much more important - a good education instills in you the intuitive understanding that there are certain things it just wouldn't do to say.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Book, Men

  Source: progressive.org

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• One thing that you and I know is language. Another thing that you and I know is how objects behave in perceptual space. We have a whole mass of complex ways of understanding what is the nature of visual space. A proper part of psychology ought to be, and in recent years has been, an effort to try to discover the principles of how we organize visual space. I would say that the same is true of every domain of psychology, of human studies.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Space, Effort

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Physics and those parts of other fields that grow out of physics - chemistry, the structure of big molecules - in those domains, there is a lot of progress. In many other domains, there is very little progress in developing real scientific understanding.

  Noam Chomsky

  Real, Progress, Molecules

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Whether or not you're writing fiction or you're making sculptures. You're trying to create a space. You're trying to make something where your own epiphanies and your own desires and your own understanding of the world can reveal itself.

  Denison Witmer

  Writing, Space, Desire

  Source: sojo.net

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• People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

  Noam Chomsky

  Usa, People, World

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There is only that inevitable danger as long as there is lack of understanding; but the moment the individual understands, there will be no formation of religion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Long, Moments, Individual

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• My chief concern is to make clear the Truth which I have attained, to give an understanding of the Truth, which is the Truth for all. And hence, if there is understanding rather than blind following, people will not create a religion.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  People, Giving, Blind

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• I can only insist that understanding, not blind belief, should be the goal.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Blind Belief, Goal, Should

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• When I said that I am the Buddha, the Christ, the Lord Maitreya, and more, it was not a question of superiority or inferiority. I added that phrase 'and more' very carefully, because I knew that people had a very limited understanding of the Buddha and the Christ, and hence if I said: 'I am the Christ, the Buddha', they would limit that Reality to their own conceptions of the Buddha or the Christ, and Life has no limit.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Reality, People, Limits

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• The purpose of having the title 'World-Teacher' is to acknowledge, to show, the condition of mind and heart when you have achieved. It is like saying: 'I have painted a picture'. It is like saying: 'I have written a poem'. It is an assertion of the fact of attainment, rather than the narrow understanding that is given to labels and phrases. What the phrase indicates is of importance.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Teacher, Heart, Mind

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• The Hindu, the Oriental, says that the physical is but the shadow of the Eternal, of the Truth; and he says 'In order to understand the Truth, I must let the shadow go, and not concern myself with it, but with the understanding of the Eternal.' So he does not concern himself with the physical. He is more concerned with the quality of mind and heart. Hence there is disease, there is disorder, and there is chaos and neglect and the gradual running down of the physical.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Running, Heart, Order

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• There you have the two extremes: the man that is concerned mainly with the hidden life, and the man who seriously concerns himself with the expression of that life. What I want to do is to bring about harmony between the two extremes, for therein lies the Truth. The harmony of life is the understanding of Truth.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Lying, Men, Two

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Without an understanding of the issue of race and a willingness to confront it head on, the working class will not build its strength.

  Michael Yates

  Race, Class, Issues

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I'm not an American as you know, and to deliver "Jackie" today in the United States and understanding the role of women in society is changing and I hope it just gets better and better - and also in cinema. There's very few interesting roles today for women in cinema. It's getting better and stronger and, and I'm proud to be part of that.

  Pablo Larrain

  Interesting, Get Better, Stronger

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• Puck in the centre of your chest, always have motion in your skating when the rush is coming at you, being square to the puck, understanding who's on the ice and where they are on the ice at all times, competing and having fun.

  Jake Allen

  Fun, Ice, Squares

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Some people naturally have a sense of empathy and an understanding of how to bring their followers to do things. They become great politicians.

  Colin Powell

  People, Empathy, Followers

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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