Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create valuable things for others, like imaginative technologies and good food, cars and drugs.
Understanding
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
There is something about guns that inhibits understanding. It is not just that they can put an end to argument. They somehow generate beliefs that are obviously contrary to observable fact.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
Much learning does not teach understanding.
Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory.
The sharing of joy, whether physical, emotional, psychic, or intellectual, forms a bridge between the sharers which can be the basis for understanding much of what is not shared between them, and lessens the threat of their difference.
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
My prime interests are in evolution and development. I use the cellular slime molds as a tool to seek an understanding of those twin disciplines.
The great artist is the man who most obviously succeeds in turning his pains to advantage, in letting suffering deepens his understanding and sensibility, in growing through his pains.