Quotes About Knowledge

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.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

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

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

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

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

I had to gain experience as I did not have a technical education.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.

I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.

Strangest thing is, you learn the value of experience only with experience

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

The three most dangerous words in medicine: in my experience.

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

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.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.