A quotation from Addison

Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. I who hear a thousand coffee-house debates every day, am very sensible of this want of method in the thoughts of my honest countrymen. There is not one dispute in ten which is managed in those schools of politics, where, after the first three sentences, the question is not entirely lost. Our disputants put me in mind of the scuttle-fish, that when he is unable to extricate himself, blackens all the water about him, till he becomes invisible.

Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1712-09-05), The Spectator, No. 476

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Unanswered Questions: Why Adults Avoid Talking About Death?

Join us on the bench as we explore life's big questions about death and why adults sometimes struggle to answer. We share a moment of reflection and understanding in this thought-provoking conversation. #LifeQuestions #DeepThoughts #LifeQuestions #DeepThoughts #Conversation #Reflection #Understanding #Adulting #Death #Philosophy #EmotionalIntelligence #HonestTalk from Famozo

https://worldtravelsyt.wordpress.com/2025/04/21/unanswered-questions-why-adults-avoid-talking-about-death/

PDF Content Simplified: AI Understanding Tool
https://zurl.co/JimJ6
#AITool #PDFContent #Understanding #Technology #Efficiency #Innovation #Productivity #Explanation #Solutions #Automation

Thoughts on our #school system: Without #understanding, it is impossible to think in a differentiated way. Such people are more easily seduced by #simplistic arguments. People who cannot reflect, who are not self-critical won‘t contribute to the #common #good. You can't dispel #ignorance with facts and #knowledge. #Understanding is needed for that.
If we continue like this, our #education system will soon abolish #Democracy

We get out the computer, do a bit of googling and after a few minutes we #know. Because we have not learned the difference between #knowledge and #understanding, we believe we have arrived. But you can't gain understanding that way. You will never become #wise in this manner.

Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim

https://pikuma.com/blog/origins-of-vim-text-editor

Do You Really Want to Get to Know the Villain?

I’ve been thinking about villains. I was going to specify that I mean the villains in our stories, but that wouldn’t be true. Real-life villains have been consuming my thoughts, and it took considerable mental effort to turn to fictional villains for this piece.
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/04/18/do-you-really-want-to-get-to-know-the-villain/

#conflict #CRAFT #charactertohate #understanding #villain
@indieauthors

A quotation from Eric Hoffer

If what we profess is not an organic part of our understanding, we are likely to profess it with vehemence and intolerance. Intolerance is the “Do Not Touch” sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) American writer, philosopher, longshoreman
Passionate State of Mind, Aphorism 62 (1955)

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Compassionate insight integrates heart and mind, www.compassmethods.com. https://youtube.com/@compassionscompass-sb7jo?si=wmxLvmcRBAro6kTK #mentalhealth #love #understanding #compassion #wisdom

A quotation from Montaigne

I gladly return to the subject of the ineptitude of our education. Its goal has been to make us not good or wise, but learned; it has attained this goal. It has not taught us to follow and embrace virtue and wisdom, but has imprinted in us their derivation and etymology. We know how to decline virtue, if we cannot love it. If we do not know what wisdom is by practice and experience, we know it by jargon and by rote.
 
[Je retombe volontiers sur ce discours de l’ineptie de nostre institution : Elle a eu pour sa fin, de nous faire, non bons & sages, mais sçavans : elle y est arrivée. Elle ne nous a pas appris de suyvre & embrasser la vertu & la prudence : mais elle nous en a imprimé la derivation & l’etymologie. Nous sçavons decliner vertu, si nous ne sçavons l’aymer. Si nous ne sçavons que c’est que prudence par effect, & par experience, nous le sçavons par jargon & par cœur.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1578), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption], Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17) (1595) [tr. Frame (1943)]

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Understanding the 2025 HIPAA Security Rule Updates: A Comprehensive Analysis of Healthcare Cybersecurity Enhancements – Source: www.cyberdefensemagazine.com https://ciso2ciso.com/understanding-the-2025-hipaa-security-rule-updates-a-comprehensive-analysis-of-healthcare-cybersecurity-enhancements-source-www-cyberdefensemagazine-com/ #rssfeedpostgeneratorecho #cyberdefensemagazine #cyberdefensemagazine #CyberSecurityNews #Understanding

#Zoomposium with Prof. Dr. #Arieh #Ben-#Naim: “#Enchantment of #Entropy”

He assumes that we need a new basic #understanding of the #phenomenon of entropy. In Arieh's view, entropy, which originally stems from the 2nd #main #theorem of #thermodynamics, has been misused and incorrectly transferred as a #concept to other areas of #physics, #biology and everyday #life.

Read more at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2024/02/22/entzauberung-der-entropie/

or: https://youtu.be/Km88EreH4A8

Tenderness is our language We don't have to be alike to love.
#tenderness #languageOfLove #love #understanding #differentButLove #heart #flowers #loveIsLove

Understanding Geological Time With Associate Professor Stijn Glorie [video]
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“A/Prof Stijn Glorie is a geochronologist at University of Adelaide who uses radio-isotope decay to date rocks, revealing Earth’s evolution and aiding insights into mountains, ores, and climate-tectonics links…”
#geology #time #learning #education #dating #age #epochs #understanding #rocks #structuralgeology #Quaternary #conception

Understanding Aggregate Trends for Apple Intelligence Using Differential Privacy

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/differential-privacy-aggregate-trends

#HackerNews #Understanding #Aggregate #Trends #for #Apple #Intelligence #Using #Differential #Privacy

aggregate #trends #apple #intelligence #differential #privacy #machine #learning

Cause information and knowledge are growing exponentially, #schools try to cram facts into the minds of students. The result is that there is less and less room for #understanding, for reflection on the world and the #meaning of life, for an understanding of #nature and #society, for #humanistic #values, for ethics...
Doing so, we are destroying our #culture and #civilization, because culture is nourished by understanding and wisdom, and civilization without understanding becomes uncontrollable.

To Know is to Take The Time
Grant Hope 169
https://www.granthope.net/p/to-know-is-to-take-the-time
https://youtu.be/hTOKe8rK7OU

Whoever said a young woman can’t stare straight into the heart
that understanding only comes with experience and time
that these things are the only way to have rationality and mind?
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A quotation from George Carlin

Those who dance are considered insane by those who can’t hear the music.

George Carlin (1937-2008) American comedian
Book (1997), Brain Droppings, “Short Takes (Part 1)”

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