Learning Quote by Isaiah Berlin

“Our minds are wired by nature to detect patterns.”

— Mark Frost

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

— Robert Delaunay

The ability of humans to read meaning into patterns is the most defining characteristic we have.

— Eleanor Catton

So you look for patterns because that's what humans do to try and make sense of things. In hope of some divine order. And…

— Iain S Thomas

“Science is about recognizing patterns. [...] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because…

— Christopher Knight & Alan Butler

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

Understanding has very specific component parts. These component parts are affinity, reality and communication.

— L. Ron Hubbard

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature…

— Francis Bacon

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been…

— Robert M. Pirsig

“your brain is structured to make sense of stimuli and patterns in any environment you step into, and it's finding patterns in this new…

— David DiSalvo

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits.

— Jan Peacock

Thoroughly understand what it is to understand, and not only will you understand the broad lines of all there is to be understood but…

— Bernard Lonergan