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For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.
Aristotle384–322 BCNicomachean Ethics, Book II, 1103a.33: Cited in: Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005), 21:9
- Education
All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson1709–1784Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol III (15 April 1778) p. 393
- Philosophy
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The free-holder: or political essays, (1716), No. 30 (2 April 1716)
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.
MOMary Oliver1935–2019Thirst (2006)
- Emotion
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
Albert Einstein1879–1955Letter to Dr. H. L. Gordon (May 3, 1949—AEA 58-217) as quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe (2007) by Walter Isaacson
- Ideas
If sleep is the apogee of physical relaxation, boredom is the apogee of mental relaxation. Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience.
Walter Benjamin1892–1940“The Storyteller” (1936), p. 91
We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.
Aldous Huxley1894–1963The Doors of Perception (1954), p. 159
Bad times have a scientific value. […] We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the sea.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The Conduct of Life (1860)
What is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Thomas Carlyle1795–1881Carlyle, Essays, On History. Quote reported in Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 419-23.
- Knowledge
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow1908–1965Television broadcast, (31 December 1955)
We never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.
Daniel Defoe1660–1731Robinson Crusoe (1719), Ch. 10, Tames Goats.In context
The condition of all progress is experience. We go wrong a thousand times before we find the right path.
Felix Adler1851–1933Life and Destiny (1913)
- Failure
There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
Willa Cather1873–1947The Song of the Lark (1915), Part VI, Ch. 7
- Education
But though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows, that all arises out of experience.
Immanuel Kant1724–1804Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787), B 1
- Knowledge
At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
Yukio Mishima1925–1970Confessions of a Mask (1949), p. 118.