Learning Quote by Darrell L. Bock

“I think preconceived ideas or prejudgments are meant to give us an edge whenever we are dealing with others we don’t know or haven’t…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

I agree with you that it is important to examine our presuppositions, throughly and once for all, in order to establish something solid. For…

— Gottfried Leibniz

“Remember that you’re looking for the author’s ideas. Begin by stating in rough fashion what you think the writer is talking about—that is, his…

— Haddon W. Robinson

“The individualism of the Romantic theory of interpretation attempts to abstract the individual from his historical context by presenting him with the ideal of…

— Andrew Louth

“It is remarkable how often the first interpretations of new evidence have confirmed the preconceptions of its discoverers.”

— John Reader

“Prior knowledge is vital to comprehension because writers omit information.”

— Terry Marselle

“However, though we may never achieve perfect transparency, we can limit the impact of personal bias upon the process of interpretation by giving the…

— Dalai Lama XIV

The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent…

— Francis Bacon

“Every human behavior can be explained by what precedes it, but that does not excuse it,”

— Gavin de Becker

“Understanding something is based on thinking level some one get sooner someone later and someone even don’t want to understand even the topic is…

— M.Rishad Sakhi

“Again, he recommended the phenomenological method: disregard intellectual clutter, pay attention to things and let them reveal themselves to you.”

— Sarah Bakewell

“... anecdotes can easily become interpretations, and the facts expand in minds when they are not opposed by knowledge.”

— Bernd Heinrich