Quotes About Insight

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Experience precedes understanding.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

My desire is to set up a situation to which I take you and let you see. It becomes your experience.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

You bring to a painting your own experience.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

We know not through our intellect but through our experience.

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Education is what you get from reading the small print; experience is what you get from not reading it.

Experience must be our only guide. Reason may mislead us.

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding than merely reading about them.

Awareness requires a rupture with the world we take for granted; then old categories of experience are called into question and revised.

[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

Experience is a form of paralysis.

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

A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.