There is one way to understand another culture. Living it. Move into it, ask to be tolerated as a guest, learn the language. At some point understanding may come. It will always be wordless. The moment you grasp what is foreign, you will lose the urge to explain it. To explain a phenomenon is to distance yourself from it.
Peter HøegMots clés communication language understanding insight culture foreign
Two things are to be remembered: that a man whose opinions and theories are worth studying may be presumed to have had some intelligence, but that no man is likely to have arrived at complete and final truth on any subject whatever. When an intelligent man expresses a view which seems to us obviously absurd, we should not attempt to prove that it is somehow true, but we should try to understand how it ever came toseemtrue. Thisexercise of historical and psychological imagination at once enlarges the scope of our thinking, and helps us to realize how foolish many of our own cherished prejudices will seem to an age which has a different temper of mind.
Bertrand RussellMots clés wisdom intelligence philosophy tolerance insight bertrand-russell
The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment."
(A Qualified Farewell)
Mots clés writing insight craft critics detachment
It’s true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow."
"Ah...quite. You are a man of acute insight."
"That’s not insight. That’s a personal guarantee.
Mots clés truth insightful religion miracles failure insight guarantees human-sacrifice guarantee failure-is-not-an-option
He was shaken by an unwelcome insight. Lives did not add as integers. They added as infinities.
Lois McMaster BujoldMots clés truth infinity insight value-of-life
In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths of people who have already been preselected for their willingness to say what we want to hear.
Daniel Todd GilbertMots clés insight humorous truthful duh
You're a lot of horrible things - untehical, sociopathic, evil even - but you're no idiot.
Matt ForbeckMots clés insight leverage cha0s
I knew everything! Yet, I'm still not perfect.
kent Ian N. CnyMots clés insightful insight
I'm not here only just for a visit; but I'm here cuz' i knew I'm HOME.
kent Ian N. CnyMots clés insightful inspiration insight insights
There's a fine line between career criminals and career professionals because most of us fall somewhere in between.
Samantha LeahyMots clés wisdom life insightful insight crime career job criminals
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