"You only understand information relative to what you……" — Richard Saul Wurman

"You only understand information relative to what you already understand."

— Richard Saul Wurman

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20 Quotes by Richard Saul Wurman

Richard Saul Wurman has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The fundamental failure of most graphic, product, architectural and even urban design is its insistence on serving the God of…
In school, we're rewarded for having the answer, not for asking a good question.
Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure…
Learning can be defined as the process of remembering what you are interested in.
Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.
The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something
People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring
The key to making things understandable is to understand what it’s like not to understand.
If you serve that God, all the others will be taken care of. My quote is: 'The only way to…
My opening line to my students, and a recurring theme in my classes, was that the big design problem isn't…
When I have the choice to do something I don't want to do, I most often – most always –…

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When we understand that man is the only animal who must create meaning, who must open a wedge into neutral… — Ernest Becker
Your investor's edge is not something you get from Wall Street experts. It's something you already have. You can outperform… — Peter Lynch
My hope is to gain a fresh hearing for Jesus, especially among those who believe they already understand him. In… — Dallas Willard
A fashionable idea in technical circles is that quantity not only turns into quality at some extreme of scale, but… — Jaron Lanier
Filmmaking is exploring. Why would I want to make a film about something I already understand? — John Cassavetes
Proponents of efficiency standards argue that they save consumers and businesses money, reduce energy use, and reduce emissions. But families… — Gina McCarthy
Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Life's something we already understand. Death is a mystery. — Veronica Roth
You don't want to know the Truth, you want to know the truth as you understand it. This is the… — Neale Donald Walsch

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