“Becoming sufficiently familiar with something is a substitute for understanding it.”
John Conway
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
-
Working on it...
Similar quotes
“The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.”
Anthony Burgess
“And now I understand something so frightening &wonderful-how the mind clings to the road it knows,rushing through crossroads, stickinglike lint to the familiar.”
Mary Oliver
Blue Pastures
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
Marshall McLuhan
The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man
“For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“One is either an artist or one is not. It is not something one becomes. It is something that one is from birth. We do not study to be artists. We study to become more proficient. To understand more.”
Edward Swift