Mary Catherine Bateson Quotes

I think you accidentally learn things in high school that turn out to be life lessons when you are able to step back a bit and study them in more depth.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

The years teach much which the days never know.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

I would have offered you a forest of truth, but you wish to speak of a single leaf

The most fertile source of insight is hindsight.

To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation.

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

Knowledge is not a loose leaf notebook of facts.

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.

Get to know other worlds, if only for comparison.

Observe, Remember, Compare.

To know is not too demanding: it merely requires memory and time. But to understand is quite a different matter: it requires intellectual ability and training, a self conscious awareness of what one is doing, experience in techniques of analysis and synthesis, and above all, perspective.

Literature is less involved in giving you answers and more dedicated to giving you insight.

Knowledge come from looking around; wisdom comes from looking up.

In a sense, knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows: for details are swallowed up in principles.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

Education is understanding relationships.

Communication starts with the understanding that there is my point of view (my truth) and someone else's point of view (his truth). Rarely is there one absolute truth, so people who believe that they speak the truth are very silencing of others.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.