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Quotes About Experience

Creativity depends on a number of things: experience, including knowledge and technical skills; talent; an ability to think in new ways; and the capacity to push through uncreative dry spells.
~ Teresa Amabile
Theory without practice is of little value, whereas practice is the proof of theory.Theory is the knowledge, practice the ability.
~ Alois Podhajsky
Never by reflection, but only by doing is self- knowledge possible to one.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.
~ Marvin Minsky
I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.
~ Charlie Sheen
Sense-perceptions can only be indirect knowledge, and not direct knowledge. Only one's own awareness is direct knowledge.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Knowledge born from actual experience is the answer to why one profits; lack of it is the reason one loses
~ Gerald M. Loeb
The most elusive knowledge of all is self-knowledge and it is usually acquired laboriously through experience outside the classroom.
~ Mirra Komarovsky
Knowledge is taken from breath, not lives in a book
~ Hamza Yusuf
Enlightenment has nothing to do with physical knowledge. It is the experience of existence. Existence is infinite. There are countless universes and creations taking place simultaneously.
~ Frederick Lenz
How surely a knowledge of the world hardens the heart!
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.
~ Nikki Reed
The knowledge that makes us cherish innocence makes innocence unattainable.
~ Irving Howe
When God is seeking a person, he will not allow my fear, my feeling of intimidation or my lack of knowledge or experience to prevent that person from finding him.
~ Rebecca Pippert
Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.
~ Frank Knight
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
~ Howard Nemerov
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
~ Euripides
In brief, the function of knowledge is to make one experience freely available to other experiences.
~ John Dewey
Dreams are a reservoir of knowledge and experience
~ Tarthang Tulku
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
~ Thomas Carlyle
Knowledge that is paid for will be longer remembered.
~ Nachman of Breslov
The knowledge that it takes to write a poem gets burnt up in the writing of the poem.
~ Li-Young Lee
We reach ecstasy by a contestation of knowledge. Were I to stop at ecstasy and grasp it, in the end I would define it.
~ Georges Bataille
One's knowledge and experience are definitely limited and there are seldom more than two or three enterprises at any given time in which I personally feel myself entitled to put full confidence.
~ John Maynard Keynes