#understand

I've learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality. ↗

— Doug E. Fresh

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Universities exist to transmit knowledge and understanding of ideas and values to students not to provide entertainment for spectators or employment for athletes. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#employment #entertainment #exist #ideas #knowledge

We've gone from thinking the fuels that powered our growth were inexpensive, inexhaustible and benign to understanding they are exhaustible, expensive and toxic. Once you frame the problem that way, people will look at solutions differently. ↗

— Thomas Friedman

#differently #expensive #frame #fuels #gone

Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. ↗

— Clifford Stoll

#data #information #knowledge #understanding #wisdom

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.' ↗

— Levi Strauss

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The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language. ↗

— Max Frisch

#between #dealer #difference #horse #language

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#busy #communications #deal #dreams #great

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

#act #awake #comparison #doings #dream

A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives. ↗

— David Frum

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People need to understand that in Washington, the process is the punishment. ↗

— David Frum

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