“I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.” PeopleKnowsWorldHumansRealityHuman BeingsForgetEventsDangerEvidenceVersionsConstructs Author:Dale Spender
“That's the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.” IfsPastAcceptingOpinionEventsDangerStandardsIdeologyFormulasMeasurementAccuracyHigh StandardsPast EventsFuture Events Author:John Dos Passos
“It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.” MenDoeWarRealitySeemsCertainEmotionSituationMilitaryFrontsEventsDangerExamplePerceptionNewsMassArmySurpriseCrowdsSensitiveExpertsVisibleRaysDefeatedObscureTranscendentalAurasGreat Events Author:Marcel Proust
“as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.” KnowsYearsSeemsVirtueEventsDangerGoes OnPatienceRushingRipeness Author:Carolyn Heilbrun
“The best-informed man is not necessarily the wisest. Indeed there is a danger that precisely in the multiplicity of his knowledge he will lose sight of what is essential. But on the other hand, knowledge of an apparently trivial detail quite often makes it possible to see into the depth of things. And so the wise man will seek to acquire the best possible knowledge about events, but always without becoming dependent upon this knowledge. To recognize the significant in the factual is wisdom.” MenHandsRealityLosesWiseEventsDangerBecomingEssentialsSightDepthDetailsSignificantAcquireDependentWisestMultiplicityFactual Book:Ethics Source: Ethics
“It is absolutely correct to say that if you can't learn from the events of Nazi Germany, you will not be able to grasp the ... danger of the radical Muslim world today. You are simply hiding.” IfsWorldTodayAbleEventsDangerRadicalGermanyHidingNaziWorld TodayNazi GermanyMuslim World Author:Alfons Heck
“I believe is that we can forecast the "changing landscape of context," and thus get insight into when we are entering the danger zone of an X-event.” BelieveI BelieveEventsDangerInsightLandscapeZoneEnteringForecastsOf Context Author:John L. Casti