Quotes About Experience

I have no knowledge other than that gained through my own eyes.

Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.

The past is a palimpsest. Early memories are always obscured by accumulations of later knowledge.

To learn by observation is traveling, people must also bring knowledge with them.

You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.

Many events seem to happen twice to me; even trifles, unimportant-seeming, recur, as if I were destined to live them again, time reconquered, but with added knowledge and a different outcome.

We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

Knowledge must come through action.

The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.

My knowledge of Abuja is not as deep as my knowledge of Lagos.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

When you're on stage you have a very strange knowledge of what the audience is. It isn't exactly a sound - it's a hum, like the streets.

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since.

Most people's historical perspective begins with the day of their birth.

In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

I've got no problems with my age. I rejoice in the knowledge I have accrued and savor the greatest moments, because I know how fast it goes.

My knowledge of video games ends with Nintendo Mario Bros.

I'm old and my knowledge is strictly horizontal.

Applicants must also have extensive knowledge of Unix, although they should have sufficiently good programming taste to not consider this an achievement.

I actually think there's an incredible amount of self-knowledge that comes with getting older.

Wisdom is the use of knowledge