- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Basic Understanding Quotes
On building foundational knowledge and insight.
These quotes describe how a basic understanding of a subject, whether industry, science, or history, shapes how people see the world. See related themes at Ability quotes.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
- Car
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was a die maker for 39 years, so I had a basic understanding of the automobile industry and what the manufacturing world was like, just from the opportunity to spend time with him - just talking, because he was a car buff.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
But what is more, if we have succeeded in adding to the basic understanding of our universe and ourselves, we will have made a contribution to the totality of human culture.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to investments, I have to go to someone else to understand them, but then I have to make a judgment. I can't do that if I don't have a basic understanding myself.
- Negative
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- Nov 07, 2020
If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in their cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.
- Citizenry
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- Nov 07, 2020