Experience Quotes - Page 29

• It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Labor, Oneself

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• Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

  Aldous Huxley

  Training, Significant, Simplest

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Discovery

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

  Jane Fonda

  Assets

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• Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dream, Art, Faithful

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1257, Xist Publishing

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• While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Years, Space

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.368, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

  H. G. Wells

  Past, Events, Inevitable

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

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.30

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• That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Daily Life, Life Is, Oneself

  D. H. Lawrence, Book House (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.805, Book House

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• The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

  Albert Einstein

  Legitimacy, Justification, Concepts

  Albert Einstein (2014). “The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Purpose, Forget

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.215, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Tribulation, Parentheses, Omitting

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Littles, Way

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Without passions you have no experience whatever.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.235, Courier Corporation

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• Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's.

  E. M. Forster

  Moving, Two, Darkness

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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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• It is exceptional that one should be able to acquire the understanding of a process without having previously acquired a deep familiarity with running it, with using it, before one has assimilated it in an instinctive and empirical way... Thus any discussion of the nature of intellectual effort in any field is difficult, unless it presupposes an easy, routine familiarity with that field. In mathematics this limitation becomes very severe.

  John von Neumann

  Running, Effort, Understanding

  John Von Neumann, F. Bródy, Tibor Vámos (1995). “The Neumann Compendium”, p.618, World Scientific

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• Probably no branch of mathematics has experienced a more surprising growth than has... topology... Considered as a most specialized and abstract subject in the early 1920's, it is today [1938] an indispensable equipment for the investigation of modern mathematical theories.

  Raymond Louis Wilder

  Growth, Branches, Today

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