Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it’s always invigorating,” [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. “It wakes us right up.
Jonah LehrerTag: dissent creativity understanding assumptions surprise alternative-views invigoration new-perspectives
While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.
H.E. DaveyTag: perception knowledge understanding meditation ki nakamura-tempu shin-shin-toitsu-do
True love is born from understanding.
Gautama BuddhaTag: love compassion understanding buddha
Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.
Megan ChanceTag: belief faith understanding logic spiritualism
I don't understand a thing about this world: about people, and why they do the things they do. The more I find out, the more I uncover, the more I know, the less I understand.
Craig SilveyTag: life knowledge understanding craig-silvey jasper-jones
My brother, he says. My brother is dead.
"And again he asks me to kill him. One more time before he falls to his knees and sobs. And i get it. I do. Because i have a brother too.
Tag: understanding brothers
Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.
Kathryn ErskineTag: understanding quotes mockingbird author-s-note
Understanding people’s difficulties and—just as crucial—helping people understand their own difficulties and teaching them concrete ways to help themselves will help them better deal with their own lives and, in turn, ours.
Kathryn ErskineTag: life empathy people understanding mockingbird author-s-note kathryn-erskine
Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?
Terence McKennaTag: knowledge understanding smart
Truth ain't be in secret site to be found.
It lies within certain levels of understanding and knowledge.
Tag: truth knowledge understanding
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