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“Women from earliest times have been used as conveniences of communication with unseen, inaccessible powers, but always in the sense that such exposing of self to dangerous mysteries, such destruction of the understanding as was required to become the slave of unseen powers, did not matter because the communicant was only a woman, in herself an undetermined cipher - a nothing.”

Has Beens Self Matter Used Understanding Mystery Dangerous Communication Destruction Slave Unseen Convenience Exposing Inaccessible Ciphers

Author:Laura Riding

“The more perfect our means of direct experience, the more easily we are caught by the dangerous illusion that perceiving is tantamount to knowing and understanding.”

Mean Understanding Perfect Knowing Dangerous Illusion Direct Caught Knowing And Understanding

Book:Film as Art

Source: Film as Art

“Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.”

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“Dangerous principles impose upon our understanding, emasculate our spirits, and spoil our temper.”

Spirit Understanding Principles Dangerous Temper Spoil

Author:Jeremy Collier

“Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are chosen, the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.”

Needs Made Important Understanding Powerful Dangerous Politician Unique Evidence Species Chosen Arrogance Ecology

Author:Lynn Margulis

“The notion that black folks have nothing to learn from scholarship that may reflect racial or racist biases is dangerous. It promotes closed-mindedness and a narrow understanding of knowledge to hold that "race" is such an overwhelming concept that it negates the validity of any insights contained in a work that may have some racist or sexist aspects.”

May Understanding Black Race Dangerous Racism Concepts Aspect Notion Folks Insight African American Racist Overwhelming Scholarship Validity Sexist

Author:Bell Hooks

“To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.”

Mean Ideas Sometimes Reason Light Understanding Dangerous Analogies

Book:Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

Source: Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada

“People with good intentions but limited understanding are more dangerous than people with total ill will.”

People Understanding Dangerous Intention Ill Good Intentions Ill Will

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.”

Use Understanding Economic Land Dangerous Prove Intention Dues Conservation Good Intentions Lack Of Understanding Land Use

Author:Aldo Leopold

“The Catholic understanding has been that the death penalty has been become, like, outdated because in industrialized countries. We have other ways of protecting societies from dangerous people without killing them. And in fact, it's important to remember that much of the world has done away with the death penalty.”

People World Way Has Beens Important Country Done Facts Remember Understanding Dangerous Catholic Killing Penalties Death Penalty Outdated

Author:Shane Claiborne

“We are in an extremely dangerous situation. It was ignorant and ahistorical for Donald Trump to say that the EU will dissolve. He is a man of very little historical understanding. For example, when he accused his own intelligence community of using Nazi tactics against him, he was actually confusing the Nazis with East Germany's secret police, the Stasi. Trump also has no idea that for 70 years, it has been U.S. policy to support those who want to unite Europe. It is very dangerous that he is turning his back on Europe now.”

Men Understanding Community Secret Situation Support Dangerous Policy Police Historical Ignorant Nazi Confusing Accused

Author:Anthony Glees

“And to me, that is the greatest danger, that people start questioning basic facts and start not understanding the importance of democratic institutions such as the free press. I mean, to call the press the enemy is dangerous and just remarkably bizarre. The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of how important the framers viewed the press. But in authoritarian regimes, they control the press. And to me, going down an authoritarian path is the greatest danger that we face as a republic.”

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Author:Ted Lieu