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“The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice there is little we can do to change until we notice how failing to notice shapes our thoughts and deeds.”

Thinking Littles Can Do Change Justice Knowledge Learning Failing Shapes Management Social Justice Deeds Range Our Thoughts Mindful Living

Author:R. D. Laing

“We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.”

Needs Can Do Knowledge Generations

Book:Asger Jorn

Source: Asger Jorn

“The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.”

Art Matter Artist Can Do Principles Knowledge Practice Study Art Is Lifetime

Author:Edgar Alwin Payne

“Computers and rocket ships are examples of invention, not of understanding. ... All that is needed to build machines is the knowledge that when one thing happens, another thing happens as a result. It's an accumulation of simple patterns. A dog can learn patterns. There is no "why&rdqo"; in those examples. We don't understand why electricity travels. We don't know why light travels at a constant speed forever. All we can do is observe and record patterns.”

“Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything.”

Knows Men Facts Science Courses Can Do Nature Knowledge Observation Servant Interpreter

Book:Selected Philosophical Works

Source: Selected Philosophical Works

“I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the contents of his own head, a set of options and imaginative alternatives. His role is that of a scientist, whether on safari or in his laboratory, faced with an unknown terrain or subject. All he can do is to devise various hypotheses and test them against the facts.”

Knows Feels Art Facts Science Can Do Moral Knowledge Roles Subjects Reader Offers Tests Scientist Various Alternatives Hypothesis Imaginative Laboratory Stance Terrain Safari

Author:J. G. Ballard

“Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?”

Ifs Should Mind Interest Can Do Consciousness Knowledge Imagine Prove Stones

Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“One cannot enter don Juan's world intellectually, like a dilettante seeking fast and fleeting knowledge. Nor, in don Juan's world, can anything be verified absolutely. The only thing we can do is arrive at a state of increased awareness that allows us to perceive the world around us in a more inclusive manner.”

World States Can Do Knowledge Awareness Intelligent Seeking Perceive Fleeting Don Juan Juan Dilettantes

Author:Carlos Castaneda

“The best thing a human being can do is to help another human being know more.”

Knows Inspirational Humans Helping Can Do Human Beings Knowledge Investing Helping Others Best Things Being Human Knowledge Is Power

Author:Charlie Munger