Quotes About Knowledge

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

I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.

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.

For me, in songwriting, I have a route I can take. Maybe there's some forks, I can go this way, this way. But I know those roads. I still have the experience behind me.

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

My favorite business book of all time is experience.

There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.

The senses collect the surface facts of matter... It was sensation; when memory came, it was experience; when mind acted, it was knowledge; when mind acted on it as knowledge, it was thought.

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions and interests.

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

When we cannot use the compass of mathematics or the torch of experience...it is certain we cannot take a single step forward.

Some people have nothing but experience.

[Proverbs] are short sayings made out of long experience.

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!

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

If some of this art is not for you, that's fine. Art appreciation is a subjective matter, and we each bring our own experience, knowledge and taste to the party.