Mason Cooley Quotes

The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter.

You can't do anything sensible until you know what the situation is that you're in.

I still haven’t figured it out completely.

One can do something if one can see and understand it.

All I ever wanted was to know what to do.

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

It is true that one has to think first and then to act - but it's also true that if one has no possibility of acting, one's thinking kind of becomes empty and stupid.

The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it.

Do you really know what's going on And if you don't... find out

No, you don't get it, thats why I'm telling you. You think you get it, which isn't the same as actually getting it. Get it? (Kakashi)

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Then I obviously didn't understand what it all meant, but I do now.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

This taught me a lesson, but I'm not quite sure what it is.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

I pondered what I should do and wasn't sure. Then it just finally became clear.

It's one thing to really dream and have a vision and want all these cool things, but it's a whole other thing when you actually have wisdom and understand things. Then you can truly make the best decisions.