Alfred de Vigny Quotes

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.

I just go out and try to make sense of the world around me.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

What we already know frames what we see, and what we see frames what we understand.

We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form.

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

I've been in this business a long time, and I'm very clear on what is real and what is fleeting.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that we gain from other sources.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

Experience is the cane of the blind.

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

I think that an artist is a bit like a computer. He receives information from the world around him and from his past and from his own experiences. And it all goes into the brain.