Quotes About Knowledge

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

The more hard lessons you can learn vicariously rather than through your own hard experience, the better.

Experience by itself is not science.

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience.

When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

We do not learn by experience, but by our capacity for experience.

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

It's hard to think of another field in which experience is considered a liability and those who know the least about the nuts and bolts of an enterprise are embraced as experts.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

A man can't retire his experience.