Quotes About Understanding

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.

Experience isn't the best teacher - evaluated experience is.

I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience.

Geometry in every proposition speaks a language which experience never dares to utter; and indeed of which she but halfway comprehends the meaning.

It seems to me that readers sometimes make the genesis of a poem more mysterious than it is (by that I perhaps mean, think of it as something outside their own experience)

What is important is not the right doctrine but the attainment of the true experience. It is giving up believing in belief.

When someone really goes to tell you something about what they're thinking, they're going to wear that experience with them. That's what you have to share.

Literature and film have a way of lifting you from your own existence and transporting you to some foreign place and putting you in the shoes with an experience different than your own.

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

Our theory is, if you need the user to tell you what you're selling, then you don't know what you're selling, and it's probably not going to be a good experience.

It's an honest place to be if you don't understand someone else's experience, but there's no way for the other to understand if a conversation or an explanation isn't made.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

If you want to understand what a watermelon is, you take a watermelon, get a knife, and cut the watermelon. Then you put a slice in your mouth. Boom! YOUR experience!

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

As a parent with a child with autism, its been really tough to experience your child having autism.

Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]

A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures.

youth has everything - everything but experience and tolerance.

Experience is the opposite of education.

You have to live to really know things, my love

My own experience being bullied - it made me a more compassionate person. It made me more sympathetic to the adolescent experience.

I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.