Experience Quotes - Page 34

• An event experienced is an event perceived, digested, and assimilated into the substance of our being, and the ratio between the number of cases seen and the number of cases assimilated is the measure of experience.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Science, Numbers, Perception

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• There are many people who reach their conclusions about life like schoolboys: they cheat their master by copying the answer out of a book without having worked the sum out for themselves.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life, Book, People

  "Journals". Book by Soren Kierkegaard, Harper (January 17, 1837), 1959.

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• Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

  Walter Pater

  Understanding, Fruit, Ends

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

  Donna Tartt

  Jobs, Believe, Literature

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• I've experienced first-hand the wonderful work organizations like J Bar J do for young people in Central Oregon and I am encouraged that the federal government is taking an active role in the Cascade Youth and Family Center.

  Greg Walden

  Government, Hands, Organization

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• I have to say that it was a very strange experience when, later in life, I represented Byron Scott and was negotiating with West - whose picture I used to have over my bed! That took some getting used to.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Later In Life, Bed, West

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• This car of mine, I am tickled to death with it. The machine is nearly everything, its power, stability and balance. The driver, allowing for his experience and courage, is much less.

  Malcolm Campbell

  Science, Race, Car

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• Concentration is inspiration. You must be completely overtaken by your work and your subject. Only then do all your influences and experience come up to the surface.

  Cesar Chavez

  Inspirational, Focus, Influence

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• Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Teacher, Fool, Best Teacher

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• Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Military, Order, Suffering

  1991 Commenting on the aftermath of the Gulf War in the first address by a British monarch to Congress, 16 May.

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• It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Past, Historical, Lessons

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• The experience of each new age requires a new confession, and the world seems always waiting for its poet

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Waiting, Age, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.188, Penguin

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• What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give it.

  Robert Dallek

  War, Fighting, Giving

  1991 In the NewYork Times, 24 Feb.

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• In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy and especially dislike reading experimental papers. He seemed to have very strong biological intuitions but unfortunately of negative sign.

  Francis Crick

  Strong, Reading, Math

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• People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

  Dieter Rams

  People, Clear, Positively

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• I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form.

  Julie Taymor

  Art, Japan, Creating

  "Transforming the World through Art". Academy of Achievement Interview, June 3, 2006.

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• I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

  Polykarp Kusch

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.

  Rene Descartes

  Two, Confusion, Inability

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• Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.

  Rene Descartes

  Sunshine, Diversity, Changed

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• No thought, no idea, can possibly be conveyed as an idea from one person to another. When it is told it is to the one to whom it is told another fact, not an idea. The communication may stimulate the other person to realize the question for himself and to think out a like idea, or it may smother his intellectual interest and suppress his dawning effort at thought. But what he directly gets cannot be an idea. Only by wrestling with the conditions of the problem at first hand, seeking and finding his own way out, does he think.

  John Dewey

  Communication, Wrestling, Thinking

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Middle Works of John Dewey, 1899-1924, Volume 9: 1916, Democracy and Education”, p.166, SIU Press

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• [On Richard P. Feynman's live demonstration of the rigidity of the O-rings when cold that doomed the space shuttle Challenger, killing seven astronauts:] The public saw with their own eyes how science is done, how a great scientist thinks with his hands, how nature gives a clear answer when a scientist asks her a clear question.

  Freeman Dyson

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

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• The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to be Homo Sapiens' most formidable evolutionary task... It must also be clear that we will never quite learn how to learn, for since Homo Sapiens is self-changing, and since the more culture changes the faster it changes, man's methods and rate of learning will never quite keep pace with his need to learn.

  Jules Henry

  Men, Self, Tasks

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• Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he [or she] live in.

  Edward Kasner

  Dream, Children, Play

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• Power is knowing your past.

  Spike Lee

  Past, Knowing, Your Past

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• ...we discovered that education is not something which the teacher does, but that it is a natural process which develops spontaneously in the human being. It is not acquired by listening to words, but in virtue of experiences in which the child acts on his environment. The teacher's task is not to talk, but to prepare and arrange a series of motives for cultural activity in a special environment made for the child.

  Maria Montessori

  Teacher, Children, Listening

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