Quotes About Understanding

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

There can be no excellence without insight.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them

Experience is the teacher of all things.

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.