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Quotes About Understanding

Schools provide safe spaces to talk about controversial issues, and literature presents characters portraying human experience in all its richness and contradictoriness.
~ Julia Alvarez
Strangest thing is, you learn the value of experience only with experience
~ Ranvir Shorey
The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.
~ Unknown
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.
~ Joseph Collins
You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions.
~ Jane Roberts
Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.
~ Kenneth Kaunda
When you start to try to understand everything in terms of words, the understanding of the words becomes the experience, and the experience gets lost.
~ Fred Alan Wolf
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
~ John Locke
Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.
~ Doris Lessing
Dogs experience the world as it is, without judgement. When we learn to do the same, we make the world a better place.
~ Cesar Millan
Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood
~ Paulo Freire
Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.
~ Joan Halifax
It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.
~ Gregory Crewdson
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.
~ Harold Pinter
Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.
~ Hakuin Ekaku
Children understand and remember concepts best when they learn from direct personal experience.
~ Joseph Cornell
The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.
~ Unknown
Bible study without Bible experience is pointless.
~ Bill Johnson
Our emotions are the way we experience the world. They are never wrong. It is only the conscious mind mismanaging that gets in the way.
~ Ruben Papian
Experience by itself is not science.
~ Edmund Husserl
Don't judge everyone else by your own limited experience.
~ Carl Sagan
Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience
~ Amos Bronson Alcott
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
~ Immanuel Kant