Quotes About Experience

H]istory is arguably the best method of enlarging experience in such a way as to command the widest possible consensus on what the significance of that experience might be

And he distrusts novices who, without theory, will lack judgment, which must work "like a ship's compass," recording "the slightest variations" from courses set, "however rough the sea.

Scale sets the ranges within which experience accrues. If, in evolution, edges of chaos reward adaptation; if, in history, adaptation fortifies resilience; and if, in individuals, resilience accommodates unknowns

I didn't like the play. But I saw it under unfavorable circumstances – the curtains were up. GROUCHO MARX

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

These were early days for me in the American culture, and so I wasn't aware that when people are showing you guns, they're not threatening you, it's like they're showing you their art collection. For me, at that point, what he was presenting to me was very challenging.

Truth and falsehood are arbitrary terms. . . . There is nothing in experience to tell us that one is always preferable to the other. . . . There are lifeless truths and vital lies. . . . The force of an idea lies in its inspirational value. It matters very little if it is true or false.

in 1835 Harvard's Jacob Bigelow had argued in a major address that in "the unbiased opinion of most medical men of sound judgment and long experience . . . the amount of death and disaster in the world would be less, if all disease were left to itself.

Damasio and Bechara developed their 'Somatic Marker Hypothesis'. According to this hypothesis, each event we store in memory comes bookmarked with the bodily sensations – Damasio and Bechara call these 'somatic markers' – we felt at the time of living through it for the first time; and these help us decide what to do when we find ourselves in a similar situation.

religious experience, inspiring the same kinds of passion that Vannevar Bush's Memex article had given rise to for Engelbart twenty-three years earlier. Computing was just beginning to have an impact on society.

I'd much rather watch people do what they do than talk to them across a desk.

I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out—by doing it.

We are each on our own journey; and while that journey always interacts with those of others, it remains uniquely ours. To understand it we need the eyes of a child.

Gratitude bestows reverence.....changing forever how we experience life and the world.

Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.

They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.

In a sense I'm glad that I've never learned how to paint.

The only useful thing I ever learned in school was that if you spit on your eraser it erased ink.

I didn't completed my University Education

I really got the best of education , and arts and music and summer camp. I had it great.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

Art is a process, not a product.

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

I always felt that I came up short in the education department, but I've come to the conclusion that we all get an education.