Isadora Duncan Quotes

You don't really get the full grasp of something until you see it for yourself.

Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It's all through our own individual prisms.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

I've never lived in the visual world. I live very much in an emotional-contact world.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

I like feeling my way into different minds and experiences. It comes naturally and always has.

The truth is lived, not taught.

'Arrival' talks very little about language and how to precisely dissect a foreign language. It's more a film on intuition and communication by intuition, the language of intuition.

Men seldom understand any laws but those they feel.

Knowledge, like religion, must be experienced in order to be known.

One of the hardest things in the world is to convey a meaning accurately from one mind to another.

I believe sharing stories and experiences is the best way to teach people to empathize!

Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior will be destructive. If our experience is destroyed, we have lost our own selves.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

As a performer, I'm constantly fascinated with the idea of being able to know what anybody else's experience is, and how misleading all informatives, like appearance, can be.

Too often we judge people based on our own backgrounds and experiences, but when you understand people's stories, it's easier to understand their demeanor.

The language of the face is not taught by the schools; it is intuitive, and to the observant is always legible.

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

It takes a great deal of living to get a little deal of learning.

And I think that's important, to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.