Thorough Understanding Quotes:

For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

- Anita DeFrantz

topic: Sports, Book, Thorough Understanding

A handy short definition of almost all science fiction might read: realistic speculation about possible future events, based solidly on adequate knowledge of the real world, past and present, and on a thorough understanding of the nature and significance of the scientific method.

- Robert A. Heinlein

topic: Real, Past, Thorough Understanding, Adequate Knowledge, Future Events

Psychologically, the teaching of abstractions first is wrong. Indeed, a thorough understanding of the concrete must precede the abstract.

- Morris Kline

topic: Teaching, Thorough Understanding, Firsts

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Friendship, Nature, Integrity, Inspirational Friendship, Honest Work

There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.

- George Washington Carver

topic: Life, Cutting, Achievement, Veneer, Short Cuts

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

- John Locke

topic: Education, Wisdom, Philosophical, Thorough Knowledge, Thorough Understanding

God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'

- Benjamin Franklin

source: Benjamin Franklin's letter to David Hartley (December 4, 1789) as quoted in "The Writings of Benjamin Franklin," Volume 10 (p. 72) edited by Albert H. Smyth, 1907.

topic: Thorough Knowledge, Thorough Understanding

Logical investigations can obviously be a useful tool for philosophy. They must, however, be informed by a sensitivity to the philosophical significance of the formalism and by a generous admixture of common sense, as well as a thorough understanding both of the basic concepts and of the technical details of the formal material used. It should not be supposed that the formalism can grind out philosophical results in a manner beyond the capacity of ordinary philosophical reasoning. There is no mathematical substitute for philosophy.

- Saul Kripke

topic: Philosophy, Philosophical, Common Sense, Thorough Understanding

A thorough understanding of game theory, should dim these greedy hopes. Knowledge of game theory does not make one a better card player, businessman or military strategist.

- Anatol Rapoport

source: "The Use and Misuse of Game Theory". Scientific American, (p. 108), December 1962.

topic: Military, Player, Games, Thorough Understanding

When the mind has a tendency to dream, it is a mistake to keep dreams away from it, to ration its dreams. So long as you distract your mind from its dreams, it will not know them for what they are; you will always be being taken in by the appearance of things, because you will not have grasped their true nature. If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. One must have a thorough understanding of one

- Marcel Proust

source: Marcel Proust (2016). “In Search of Lost Time: Or “Á la Recherche du temps perdu””, p.799, Jester House Publishing

topic: Dream, Mistake, Taken, Rations, Thorough Understanding

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

- Nicolas Malebranche

source: Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.201, Routledge

topic: Order, House, Understanding, Vivacity, Thorough Understanding

I have a thorough understanding of nutrition, and I feed my body only foods that support health.

- Louise Hay

topic: Support, Understanding, Body, Thorough Understanding

From the standpoint of education, genius means essentially 'giving birth to the joy in learning.' I'd like to suggest that this is the central task of all educators. It is the genius of the student that is the driving force behind all learning. Before educators take on any of the other important issues in learning, they must first have a thorough understanding of what lies at the core of each student's intrinsic motivation to learn, and that motivation originates in each student's genius.

- Thomas Armstrong

topic: Motivation, Lying, Mean, Intrinsic Motivation, Driving Force

A good stack of examples, as large as possible, is indispensable for a thorough understanding of any concept,and when I want to learn something new, I make it my first job to build one.

- Paul Halmos

topic: Jobs, Understanding, Want, Learning Math, Good Math

A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course

- Siegbert Tarrasch

topic: Understanding, Chess, Matter, Mating, Thorough Understanding

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

- Malcolm X

topic: Believe, People, Giving, Thorough Understanding