"Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question……" — Richard Saul Wurman
"Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction."
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20 Quotes by Richard Saul Wurman
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The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of…
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In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.
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Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure…
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Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.
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Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.
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The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
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People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring
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The key to making things understandable is to understand what it’s like not to understand.
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If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to…
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You only understand information relative to what you already understand.
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My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't…
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When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always –…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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