Quotes About Knowledge

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]

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.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.

Instinct is the gift of experience. The first question you have to ask yourself is, 'On what basis am I making a judgment?' ... If you have no experience, then your instincts aren't any good.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

Experience makes us wise.

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.

You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

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

...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.

A belief may be comforting. Only through your own experience, however, does it become liberating.

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.

Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.

Experience is the highest authority.