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A system can not understand itself.

— W. Edwards Deming

“systems. They are self-evident and can easily be validated by any individual. It’s almost as if these principles or natural laws are part of…

— Stephen R. Covey

“System 1 is radically insensitive to both the quality and the quantity of the information that gives rise to impressions and intuitions.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“The better to understand the nature, manner, and extent of our knowledge, one thing is carefully to be observed concerning the ideas we have;…

— John Locke

The human mind feels restless and dissatisfied under the anxieties of ignorance. It longs for the repose of conviction; and to gain this repose…

— Thomas Chalmers

Every society by its own practice of living and by the mode of relatedness, of feelings, and perceiving, develops a system of categories which…

— Erich Fromm

“Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable…

— Christos Yannaras

“Whoever has the power in society determines what can be studied, determines what can be observed, determines what can be thought.”

— Michael Crichton

“However completely people might fulfil themselves in other spheres, if they don’t possess this understanding between their hands and material objects, they can never…

— Madeleine Bourdouxhe

“The fundamental construct of self and other is becoming untenable.”

— James Hamblin

“Stop trying to explain yourself. People only understand things from their level of perception; within the parameters of their agreement with reality. Save your…

— Steve Maraboli

“I think, very plausibly, that the core principle and requirement of a fulfilled human being is the ability to inquire and create constructively, independently,…

— Noam Chomsky