In order for the world to become peaceful, people must become more peaceful. Among mature people war would not be a problem — it would be impossible.
In order to understand information, we must define it; bit in order to define it, we must first understand it. Where to start?
One must know that one is not in order to be able to understand that we are.
In order to understand what kind of behaviors classrooms promote, one must become accustomed to observing what, in fact, students actually do in them.
Right action is better than knowledge; but in order to do what is right, we must know what is right.
We must understand the politics of our community and we must know what politics is supposed to produce. We must know what part politics play in our lives. And until we become politically mature we will always be mislead, lead astray, or deceived or maneuvered into supporting someone politically who doesn’t have the good of our community at heart.
You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them.
This is the way how we have to understand the accounts of trials; we must not think that God desires to examine us and to try us in order to know what He did not know before.
I don’t want to frighten you, but I would like to make you understand the import of what you think of attempting. You must not become a mere peddler of words. The thing to learn is to know what people are thinking about, not what they say.
Well, if we read the Bible as a whole we would expect order in the world. Purpose would imply order, and what we actually find is order.