Ronald Grigor Suny Quotes

Good questions outrank easy answers.

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

If you will read again what is written, you will see how it was.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

When I don't understand things, I become passionate to understand.

I was always tearing stuff apart to see how it worked.

You can think deeper and deeper and deeper and deeper into a subject, depending on what you are writing about.

The more you understand what is wrong with an entity, the more valuable that entity becomes

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

It's always interesting exploring something that has dimensions and layers to it.

There's a lot you can learn about something by taking it apart.

To learn means by practice, by inquiring, by analyzing to find out what is, not what was.

I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Intelligence complicates. Wisdom simplifies.

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

The question is just as important as the answer.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.