Quotes About Insight

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.

It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

An illusion dissipated is an experience gained.

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.

Experience is the opposite of education.

You have to live to really know things, my love

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

When you do find humor in trying times, one of the first and most important changes you experience is that you see your perplexing problems in a new way - you suddenly have a new perspective on them.

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Experience is the extract of suffering.

a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

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.

Old age is not a total misery. Experience helps.

Judgment is forced upon us by experience

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

That's what is so precious in reading this way - you can plumb the depths of another's experience while sitting still with a book in your hands.

What is revealed through the psychedelic experience, I think, is a higher dimensional perspective on reality. And I use 'higher dimensional' in the mathematical sense.