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Quotes About Knowledge

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.
~ Mason Cooley
It comes down to the experience of it. The more you fight, the more you know, the more you can use in the ring.
~ Channing Tatum
We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.
~ Thomas Browne
The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.
~ Robert Breault
Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]
~ Tacitus
If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.
~ Mother Teresa
Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.
~ Fanny Fern
Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Experience is the opposite of education.
~ Ashly Lorenzana
You have to live to really know things, my love
~ Dan Simmons, Hyperion
I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.
~ Unknown
I would take William H. Macy as a teacher any day of the week. He's incredible. He's got a lot of hard-earned experience.
~ Skeet Ulrich
Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.
~ Anna Deavere Smith
Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation.
~ Simon Blackburn
An SF author who reads only SF will have little new to contribute, but someone with a broader experience will bring more to the table.
~ Walter Jon Williams
I'm too intellectual. I don't think that the theological vocabulary is as important as the experience.
~ Rodger Kamenetz
He that has most experience [is] so much more prudent than he that is new, as not to be equalled by any advantage of natural and extemporary wit- though many young men think the contrary.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.
~ Euripides
Whatever education I got was from experience and reading. But I also realize I wouldn't pass my friend's sixth-grade class.
~ Michelle Williams
Judgment is forced upon us by experience
~ Samuel Johnson
I enjoy tutoring. I just really enjoy the experience of teaching.
~ William Hung
You could spend every waking moment online and still only experience one-trillionth of what's out there. I find that a little overwhelming.
~ Moby
Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.
~ George Henry Lewes