Quotes About Understanding

Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking.

It's in understanding yourself deeply that you can lend yourself to another person's circumstances and another person's experience.

Experience is the highest authority.

If kids are studying for a test, they're not going to learn anything. We all know that from our own experience.

Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.

You have to look beyond race because as a human being you have to experience the person from the inside first

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

It's so important to experience what your customers are experiencing and listen to their suggestions.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

Experience is mad when it steps beyond the horizons of our common, that is, our communal sense.

We see the world through our experience.

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

Creatures of a very particular making, we need to know the cultural blinders that narrow our world view as well as the psychological blinders that narrow our view of our personal experience.

Experience is the highest level of knowing.