“Our aim is to take our art to the world and make people understand what it is to move.”
David Belle (1973) French actor
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“The world is not always ours to understand….”
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“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”
Errol Morris (1948) American filmmaker and writer
Source: Foreword to The Secret Parts of Fortune http://www.errolmorris.com/content/belief/rosenbaum.html
“We [Americans] choose not to understand the world on terms other than our own.”
Ralph Peters (1952) American military officer, writer, pundit
Source: 1990s, Fighting for the Future: Will America Triumph? (1999), p. 51
Albert Camus book The Plague
The Plague (1947)
Context: The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance which fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness.
Mikhail Gorbachev (1931) General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Source: Nobel Address (1991)
Context: Preparing for my address I found in an old Russian encyclopedia a definition of "peace" as a "commune" — the traditional cell of Russian peasant life. I saw in that definition the people's profound understanding of peace as harmony, concord, mutual help, and cooperation.
This understanding is embodied in the canons of world religions and in the works of philosophers from antiquity to our time.
John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) (1642–1710) English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England
Parkyn's Case (1696), 13 How. St. Tr. 134.
“Time has always been a good ally in understanding who we had by our side: perfect strangers.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: Il tempo è sempre stato un buon alleato per capire chi avevamo al nostro fianco: perfetti sconosciuti.
Source: prevale.net
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2013, Cape Town University Address (June 2013)
Context: We always have the opportunity to choose our better history. We can always understand that most important decision -- the decision we make when we find our common humanity in one another. That’s always available to us, that choice. [... ] it can be heard in the confident voices of young people like you. It is that spirit, that innate longing for justice and equality, for freedom and solidarity -- that’s the spirit that can light the way forward. It's in you.
Kevin Kelly (1952) American author and editor
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“Our dignity is not in what we do, but in what we understand. The whole world is doing things.”
George Santayana (1863–1952) 20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism
Source: Winds of Doctrine: Studies in Contemporary Opinion (1913), p. 199