#understanding

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#democracy #like #limits #relationship #rests

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#flies #heart #judgment #out #pains

And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me. ↗

— Black Elk

#flames #i #leap #looked #many

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

User-centered design means understanding what your users need, how they think, and how they behave - and incorporating that understanding into every aspect of your process. ↗

— Jesse James Garrett

#behave #design #every #how #incorporating

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

#claim #conservatives #defend #distorted #modern

Only to he avoid misunderstandings, I must say that even last year, when I wrote my pamphlet, I heartily wished that Prussia should declare war against Napoleon. ↗

— Ferdinand Lassalle

#avoid #declare #even #heartily #i

I'm appalled the word feminism has been denigrated to a place of almost ridicule and I very passionately believe the word needs to be revalued and reintroduced with power and understanding that this is a global picture. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#appalled #been #believe #feminism #global

Today, public understanding of our past and our system of government is pitifully low. ↗

— Eric Liu

#low #our #past #public #system