“To agree without understanding is inane. To disagree without understanding is impudent.”
Source: How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
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American philosopher and educator 1902–2001Related quotes
Hans-Georg Gadamer
(1900–2002) German philosopher
Source: Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964), p. 101 http://books.google.com/books?id=7RP-TggufEEC&pg=PA101
Context: We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. It would be an inadmissible abstraction to contend that we must first have achieved a contemporaneousness with the author or the original reader by means of a reconstruction of his historical horizon before we could begin to grasp the meaning of what is said. A kind of anticipation of meaning guides the effort to understand from the very beginning.
“You actually can’t understand American history without understanding slavery.”
Ta-Nehisi Coates
(1975) writer, journalist, and educator
Ibid. (May 30, 2014) Part 2, Democracy Now!
Martin Luther King, Jr.
(1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
Undated manuscript, "The Eternal Significance of Christ", an outline of a sermon on 2 Corinthians, at the King Center http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive/document/eternal-significance-christ
“It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60).”
Joseph Campbell
(1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer
Source: Thou Art That: Transforming Religious Metaphor
George Ritzer
(1940) American sociologist
Source: Globalization - A Basic Text (2010), Chapter 5, Neo-Liberalism and Neo-Marxian Alternatives, p. 110
Sonia Sotomayor
(1954) U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Speech in 2000, reported in "Sotomayor's jackpot win, court rulings revealed" at MSNBC (5 June 2009).
“Almost without words, you’ve come to this world, which understands nothing without words.”
Antonio Porchia
(1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet
Has venido a este mundo que no entiende nada sin palabras, casi sin palabras.
Voces (1943)
