„… you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.“
— Jonathan Tropper American writer 1970
Fonte: This is Where I Leave You
— Jonathan Tropper American writer 1970
Fonte: This is Where I Leave You
— Ashleigh Brilliant American author and cartoonist 1933
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
Variante: If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
— Steven Novella American neurologist, skepticist 1964
SGU, Podcast #170, October 22nd, 2008 http://www.theskepticsguide.org/podcast/sgu/170
The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe, Podcast, 2000s
— Bruce Schneier American computer scientist 1963
preface to 2015 edition of Secrets and Lies
Cryptography
Contexto: A few years ago I heard a quotation, and I am going to modify it here: If you think technology can solve your security problems, then you don't understand the problems and you don't understand the technology.
— Larry Niven, livro Flatlander
"Flatlander" (1967), first published in If (March 1967)
— Stedman Graham American businessman 1951
Financial Post: "'The key is to know who you are': Stedman Graham talks investing, self-leadership and Oprah" https://business.financialpost.com/executive/leadership/the-key-is-to-know-who-you-are-stedman-graham-talks-investing-self-leadership-and-oprah (27 April 2018)
— Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020
— Charles Bukowski, livro Hollywood
Fonte: Hollywood
— Madeleine L'Engle, livro A Wrinkle in Time
Fonte: A Wrinkle in Time
— A. E. van Vogt, livro The Weapon Shops of Isher
Lucy Rail, and Cayle Clark in Ch. 5
The Weapon Shops of Isher (1951)
Contexto: "You really don't understand. We don't worry about individuals. What counts is that many millions of people have the knowledge that they can go to a weapon shop if they want to protect themselves and their families. And, even more important, the forces that would normally try to enslave them are restrained by the conviction that it is dangerous to press people too far. And so a great balance has been struck between those who govern and those who are governed."
Cayle stared at her in bitter disappointment. "You mean that a person has to save himself? Even when you get a gun you have to nerve yourself to resist? Nobody is there to help you?"
It struck him with a pang that she must have told him this in order to show him why she couldn't help him.
Lucy spoke again. "I can see that what I've told you is a great disappointment to you. But that's the way it is. And I think you'll realize that's the way it has to be. When a people lose the courage to resist encroachment on their rights, then they can't be saved by an outside force. Our belief is that people always have the kind of government they want and that individuals must bear the risks of freedom, even to the extent of giving their lives."
— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941
— Ernest Hemingway, livro Islands in the Stream
Pt. 3: At Sea, Section 21 (the last sentence of the novel)
Islands in the Stream (1970)
— Gennifer Choldenko, livro Al Capone Does My Shirts
Fonte: Al Capone Does My Shirts
— Richard Feynman, livro QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Fonte: QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (1985), p. 9
— C. J. Cherryh United States science fiction and fantasy author 1942
The Camelot Project interview (1996)
Contexto: When the legend is retold, it mirrors the reality of the time, and one can learn from studying how various authors have attempted to retell the story. I don't think we have an obligation to change it radically. I think that if we ever move too far from the basic story, we would lose something very precious. I don't, for instance, approve of fantasy that attempts to go back and rewrite the Middle Ages until it conforms to political correctness in the twentieth century. That removes all the benefit from reading the story. If you don't understand other people in their time and why they did what they did, then you don't understand your own past. And when you lose your past, you lose some potential for your own future.
— John Irving, livro The World According to Garp
The World According to Garp (1978), ch. 5
— Chuck Palahniuk, livro Diary
Variante: What we don't understand we can make mean anything.
Fonte: Diary