Quotes About Insight

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

Art is an experience, not an object.

We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.

We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

Connecting dots is not that rewarding of an experience.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Well, you know... experience is a muffled lantern that throws light only on the bearer...it's incommunicable.

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

As much experience, education and awareness as one can attain is important for a comedian.

We had the experience, but we missed the meaning.

Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.

An experience that changes nothing is hardly worth having.

Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.

I think a player constantly improves his understanding of chess with experience.

Strangest thing is, you learn the value of experience only with experience

Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each other, and my work is a way of scooping and ladling that experience.

There are lots of things we never understand, no matter how many years we put on, no matter how much experience we accumulate.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

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