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  • Confusion and clutter are failures of design, not attributes of information. And so the point is to find design strategies that reveal detail and complexity - rather than to fault the data for an excess of complication. Or, worse, to fault viewers for a lack of understanding.

    Data   Confusion   Design  
  • Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwhile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of understanding of this simple fact.

    Simple   Guitar   Careers  
    Terry Pratchett (2016). “Seriously Funny: The Endlessly Quotable Terry Pratchett”, p.37, Random House
  • Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  • My theory is that humans aren't really bad; we all do bad things, but being bad is not our natural state. You're acting out of fear, lack of understanding, compassion, but essentially communication. Human beings are made of love, an overwhelming desire to love. When we communicate, we exist in our natural state.

  • 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.

    Life   Hate   War  
    "The Plague". Book by Albert Camus, 1947.
  • You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it

    Two   Years   Diversity  
  • What's blinking red on my radar is the fact that for people who prioritize abortion rights, LGBTQ rights, or voting rights, those things are coming out of state legislatures, and some of the laws on reproduction stuff is coming out of city council, and so what's getting at me is the fact that there's just a fundamental lack of understanding that these laws are happening and being created by people who often won by ten votes in a midterm election.

    Law   Cities   Rights  
    Source: www.glamour.com
  • The karate that has been introduced to Tokyo is actually just a part of the whole. The fact that those who have learnt karate there feel it only consists of kicks & punches, and that throws & locks are only to be found in judo or jujutsu, can only be put down to a lack of understanding ... Those who are thinking of the future of karate should have an open mind and strive to study the complete art

  • Vladimir: I don't understand. Estragon: Use your intelligence, can't you? Vladimir uses his intelligence. Vladimir: (finally) I remain in the dark.

    Dark   Intelligence   Use  
    Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.17, Faber & Faber
  • A decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on the part of the client. I think it is the decorator's job to work as a guide, to bring out the best qualities and the best attitudes.

  • One thing that I feel very, very strongly is that we talk about Islamic countries, Islamic people, Islamic leaders, as either moderates or extremists. It's almost like there are only two categories of Muslims. And actually, that doesn't show respect. It shows lack of understanding of the diversity of Muslim thought.

    Country   Islamic   Two  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.

    Mary Rakow (2015). “The Memory Room: A Novel”, p.303, Counterpoint
  • Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in. The skepticism comes from a lack of understanding and the need to defend the status quo and not from actual knowledge of the subject.

  • The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.

  • One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

    Funny   Success   Sex  
    Emma ch. 9 (1816)
  • This perversion of the truth, familiar to the artist though it was, always unnerved him afresh and proved too much for him. What was a consequence of the premature ending of his fast was here presented as the cause of it! To fight against this lack of understanding, against a whole world of nonunderstanding, was impossible.

    Franz Kafka (1979). “The Basic Kafka”, p.85, Simon and Schuster
  • The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

    Jeremy Narby (2016). “The Cosmic Serpent”, p.104, Hachette UK
  • The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

    Dr. Robert C. Worstell, editor, Napoleon Hill “Law of Success - Law of Attraction”, Lulu.com
  • Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

    Education   Wise   Wisdom  
    Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 86
  • He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.

    Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”
  • ... mutual lack of understanding carries the threat of imminent and violent destruction.

  • In perplexities-when we cannot tell what to do, when we cannot understand what is going on around us, let us be calmed and steadied and made patient by the thought that what is hidden from us is not hidden from Him

    Frances Ridley Havergal (1887). “My King, Or, Daily Thoughts for the King's Children”
  • If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.

    Bruce Schneier (2011). “Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World”, p.9, John Wiley & Sons
  • Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

    Love   Funny   Hilarious  
    Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories”, p.75, eBookIt.com
  • It's not that humans and non-humans are identical... but the lack of understanding that led to the slave trade is the same lack of understanding many people have about animals today. When slaves were brought over from Africa, many people believed they were not humans, that they didn't have feelings. Many people believe that primates and other animals don't have feelings, too, but they do.

    Believe   Animal   People  
  • The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.

    SABC TV2 Interview, oldgov.gcis.gov.za. February 16, 2003.
  • The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

    "The Irresistible Revolution: Living As an Ordinary Radical". Book by Shane Claiborne, 2006.
  • I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

  • The lack of understanding of something is not evidence for God. It's evidence of a lack of understanding.

    "Is There Evidence for God?". The Craig-Krauss Debate, www.reasonablefaith.org. March 2011.
  • [There] are cases where there is no dishonesty involved but where people are tricked into false results by a lack of understanding about what human beings can do to themselves in the way of being led astray by subjective effects, wishful thinking or threshold interactions. These are examples of pathological science. These are things that attracted a great deal of attention. Usually hundreds of papers have been published upon them. Sometimes they have lasted for fifteen or twenty years and then they gradually die away.

    Thinking   Years   People  
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