Quotes About Experience

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. —G. K. Chesterton12

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

If you find from your own experience that something is a fact and it contradicts what some authority has written down, then you must abandon the authority and base your reasoning on your own findings.

Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

All our knowledge hast its origins in our perceptions … In nature there is no effect without a cause … Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments … Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

While I thought I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

He had searched to find a scientific basis for art, and discovered it in the imitation of nature, based on rational experience.

There is nothing in all nature without its reason, he wrote. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience.

To me it seems that those sciences are vain and full of error which are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, firsthand experience which in its origins, or means, or end has passed through one of the five senses. And if we doubt the certainty of everything which passes through the senses, how much more ought we to doubt things contrary to these senses such as the existence of god or of the soul or similar things over which there is always dispute and contention

Nature is full of infinite reasons which have not yet passed into experience. He conceived it to be the painter's duty not only to comment on natural phenomena as restrained by law, but to merge his very mind into that of nature by interpreting its relation with art.

L'esperienza è il solo insegnante in cui possiamo confidare.

Though I may not, like them, be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy – on experience, the mistress of their Masters.

Thus would it be with a man if, while remaining within the bounds of human reason, experience and feelings, he were suddenly to see God Himself. He would see Him but would not understand, even though he knew that it was God, and he would tremble with inconceivable sufferings of incomprehension.

A slap in the face is more effective than ten lectures. It makes you understand very quickly.

ViaÈ›a nostr? de adulÈ›i reprezint? un amalgam al experienÈ›elor trecute È™i prezente, trecutul având o influen?? din ce în ce mai redus? odat? cu trecerea timpului. AflaÈ›i într-o astfel de stare, în cea mai mare parte a timpului suntem capabili s? percepem realitatea curent? în mod obiectiv È™i imediat.

watched the flash of guardrails, saw

Behind me, I heard a young woman of 25 say, If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college. Now, I'm gonna repeat that, because it bears repeating. If it weren't for my horse... as in, giddyup, giddyup, let's go — I wouldn't have spent that year in college, which is a degree-granting institution. Don't think about that too long, or BLOOD will shoot out your NOSE!

Oh sure, I have regrets, but that's the nice thing about age. Regrets fade. And eventually, you die.

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

Books were in the world; the world was in books.