Quotes About Experience

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.

It's a big jump from smart to motherwit.

When you walk to the end of a fiction, its procedure is 1) intuitive; and 2) emotional. Its intelligence is emotional, I think.

An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.

I'm a cosmopolitan sophisticate of culture and intelligence. The culmination of technology and civilized experience.

People also respected my culinary acumen and my intelligence, and that was their whole thing. They flew me over, and it was this immersive experience.

From long experience she knew that she wore her loneliness like armor. Very few people ever recognized it for what it was. To the casual observer it looked very much like arrogance. Sometimes it was.

The intensity of Intellectual suffering in Man is same as Emotional suffering in a Woman.

We all have the same pallet of emotional paints. It is how we pigment them on the canvas of life that dictates our artistry.

I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.

Only the ego can fear, experience hate, lust and jealousy. Humility experiences none of these things - it merges into the transcendental awareness of perfection.

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

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Have you not noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than your harsh ones?

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling To get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.

The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge.

Experience is knowledge. All the rest is information.

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

Every physician must be rich in knowledge, and not only of that which is written in books; his patients should be his book, they will never mislead him.

Foolish the doctor who despises the knowledge acquired by the ancients.

All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.