Quotes About Experience

When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.

Our experience with knowledge, the way we know things, is not that neat. It doesn't fit into a grand narrative, the way we've been taught to read.

Carnal knowledge is as forgettable as the other kinds.

As countries get rich they start increasing education and the very educated people tend to not like trial and error, because they think they're obligated to use the body of knowledge they have.

As far as knowledge goes I've come a long way.

Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.

There's a lot of disorder that comes along with wanting to know everything and wanting to try everything and wanting to experience everything, but there's a lot of knowledge that comes out of it too.

The unconscious is the true accumulation of your history. It can be accepted or rejected but it can't fundamentally be altered.

One can have knowledge without having wisdom, but one cannot have wisdom without having knowledge.

More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.

Models-turned-actors are a bit of a cliché... It is a huge cliché but you have to look at the positive aspects. I learned a lot about the world and took a lot of knowledge away from it.

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

Whatever we do, all the knowledge, the experience, they stay with us, we carry them on, use them in one way or another.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.

for whenever men are right they are not young

I've been very fortunate and privileged as a player and manager - I've been successful and picked up a lot of knowledge and experience.

I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.

Knowledge acquired too rapidly and without being personally supplemented is never very productive.

Knowledge is the only thing I take with me when I go.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience.

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.