Ed Parker Quotes

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight.

I have labored carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions

When you listen intensely to anything, you see how it can be improved.

True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Learning is the ally, not the adversary of genius... he who reads in a proper spirit, can scarcely read too much.

I believe that you can always learn from observation.

If with open mind one reads and observes industriously and long; if in so doing one covers a wide field and so covering reflects in terms of realism, he is likely, soon or late, to be brought to a sudden consciousness that Man is an unknown quantity and his existence unsuspected.

Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as a writer, I suppose.

Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Appreciating complexity while searching through its thickets to find essential factors leads to understanding.

I love meeting people and analysing their world. I like having a puzzle to solve. That's why I do so much work in advance. Even if it doesn't affect my performance in the end, I just find it so much more interesting if I've got as wide as possible an understanding of the material.

The one thing I've tried to do is be insightful.

It is only through reading that one can understand how people are smarter than you and what they have left behind for you.

I would say I have become a lot smarter in the way I understand things.

I strive to get better and better in understanding how the world works.

Education, information and knowledge are all one.

Without analysis, no synthesis.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

Overcoming naive impressions to figure out how things really work is one of humanity's highest callings.

You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.

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

The inexplicable happens all the time. It makes more sense to simply accept things we observe but cannot understand. It is really more scientific to keep an open mind. Until we can understand and explain the things we now label miracles, let us accept them and try to create more of them.