“Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.” IfsUseCoursesBeliefLanguageAcceptanceImplied Author:Michael Polanyi
“Now, it's my belief that Python is a lot easier than to teach to students programming and teach them C or C++ or Java at the same time because all the details of the languages are so much harder. Other scripting languages really don't work very well there either.” WellsBeliefLanguageTeachStudentsEasierHarderDetailsProgrammingJavaPython Author:Guido van Rossum
“When the American people look at the political process play out, they hear all the spinning and all the doctrinaire language, and they still walk away with the belief that they're not being represented in Congress, that there's no trust in the executive branch.” PeopleLooksStillsPlayPoliticalBeliefLanguageProcessWalksCongressBranchesExecutivesSpinningExecutive BranchNo Trust Author:David Gregory
“I started by saying that one of the most fateful errors of our age is the belief that the problem of production has been solved. This illusion, I suggested, is mainly due to our inability to recognize that the modern industrial system, with all its intellectual sophistication, consumes the very basis on which is has been erected. To use the language of the economist, it lives on irreplaceable capital which it cheerfully treats as income.” Has BeensUseProblemAgeBeliefLanguageModernIntellectualIllusionTreatsBasesErrorsEnvironmentalProductionsDuesIncomeEconomistInabilityStewardshipSophisticationIrreplaceableSmall Is Beautiful Book:SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL Source: SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL
“This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service.” BeliefLanguageTrainingEnglish LanguageEnglishmenNational Service Book:The Message of Mahatma Gandhi Source: The Message of Mahatma Gandhi
“But the idols of the Market Place are the most troublesome of all: idols which have crept into the understanding through their alliances with words and names. For men believe that their reason governs words. But words turn and twist the understanding. This it is that has rendered philosophy and the sciences inactive. Words are mostly cut to the common fashion and draw the distinctions which are most obvious to the common understanding. Whenever an understanding of greater acuteness or more diligent observation would alter those lines to suit the true distinctions of nature, words complain.” MenBelieveReasonPhilosophyTurnsNamesBeliefLanguageUnderstandingLinesCommonGreaterCuttingFashionDrawsObviousComplainingSuitsObservationDistinctionIdolsTwistsAlliancesDiligentTroublesome Author:Francis Bacon
“We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an effort to understand people and their different cultures.” PeopleDifferentWholeCultureNextBeliefLanguageEffortTeachGenerationsNext GenerationBelief SystemsDifferent Cultures Author:Jane Seymour
“People who write about issues like poverty or terrorism are a part of the elite, and the distance between the elite and nonelite is growing very fast. You can move around the world but meet only people who speak your language, who share the same ideas, the same beliefs, and in doing so you can lose sight of the fact that the vast majority of the world does not think or believe in or speak the everyday discourse of the elite.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingBelieveDoeIdeasFactsMovingBeliefSpeakLanguageLosesPovertyIssuesGrowingShareSightMajorityDistanceEverydayTerrorismAround The WorldElitesDiscourse Author:Pankaj Mishra
“The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.” WorldHas BeensMadeIdeasStatesCultureBeliefLanguageUnitedCommonUnited StatesLandCornersChosenNativeImmigrantsEnglish LanguageUnifiedCommon LanguageNewcomersCorners Of The WorldNative Language Author:S. I. Hayakawa