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Quotes About Understanding

Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.
~ Unknown
Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds.
~ Oliver Sacks
All a skeptic is is someone who hasn't had an experience yet.
~ Jason Hawes
Myself and Jamie Moffat did not agree on everything but he always knew I had the experience.
~ Jim Jefferies
Reality is the completion of experience.
~ Muriel Rukeyser
Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.
~ Albert Einstein
Experience first, then intellectualize.
~ Carl Orff
I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.
~ Danny Boyle
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete
~ Henry James
There's a grand-canyon sized gulf between explanation and experience.
~ Unknown
You've got to have models in your head and you've got to array you experience - both vicarious and direct - onto this latticework of mental models.
~ Charlie Munger
Experience by itself teaches nothing.
~ W. Edwards Deming
Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.
~ Nicholas Hawksmoor
Observing someone without context amplifies the experience. The more we know, the less we are able to feel.
~ Chuck Klosterman
The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.
~ Steve Jobs
A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.
~ L. Frank Baum
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
~ Oscar Wilde
Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.
~ Orlando Bloom
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
~ Bergen Evans
He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]
~ Plautus
In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
~ Charles William Eliot
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
~ Voltaire
Experience makes us wise.
~ William Hazlitt
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.
~ Leonardo da Vinci