--- title: "11 Experience Knowing Quotes by 10 authors" description: "Browse 11 Experience Knowing quotes by 10 authors. Discover the best Experience Knowing sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ed/william-s-knudsen-66784_experience_experience-is-knowing-a-lot-of-things-yo_747775.png" --- > [Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-knudsen/experience-is-knowing-a-lot-of-things-you-shouldnt-do/) [William S. Knudsen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-knudsen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ed/william-s-knudsen-66784_experience_experience-is-knowing-a-lot-of-things-yo_747775.png) > [“Experience is knowing what not to do and knowing when not to do it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-coates/experience-is-knowing-what-not-to-do-and-knowing-when-not-to-do-it/) [Dennis Coates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-coates/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4a7/dennis-coates-92390_experience_experience-is-knowing-what-not-to-do-and_2709088.jpg) > [“To know someone, we must experience him, and that knowing will not exceed our self-knowledge—we cannot know someone else to a greater…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shepherd-hoodwin/to-know-someone-we-must-experience-him-and-that-knowing-will-not/) [Shepherd Hoodwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shepherd-hoodwin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/747/shepherd-hoodwin-27067_journey_to-know-someone-we-must-experience-him-a_147523.jpg) > [I've had enough experience with knowing that things will turn out just fine. I pray for that. There's a lesson in everything.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kim-coles/i-ve-had-enough-experience-with-knowing-that-things-will-turn-out/) [Kim Coles](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kim-coles/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b4/kim-coles-27609_enough_i-ve-had-enough-experience-with-knowing_2342071.jpg) > [People root for me in such a way that when they come to a show, the experience of not knowing what's about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fantasia-barrino/people-root-for-me-in-such-a-way-that-when-they-come-to-a-show-the/) [Fantasia Barrino](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fantasia-barrino/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/167/fantasia-barrino-11037_experience_people-root-for-me-in-such-a-way-that-wh_1539646.jpg) > [To me, nothing is more vibrant than having the power to do something but not having the experience of knowing what's right…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tibor-kalman/to-me-nothing-is-more-vibrant-than-having-the-power-to-do-something/) [Tibor Kalman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tibor-kalman/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a2a/tibor-kalman-20659_knowing_to-me-nothing-is-more-vibrant-than-havin_1036987.png) > [Most of us encounter a great deal more Mystery than we are willing to experience. Sometimes knowing life requires us to suspend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rachel-naomi-remen/most-of-us-encounter-a-great-deal-more-mystery-than-we-are-willing-to/) [Rachel Naomi Remen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rachel-naomi-remen/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fee/rachel-naomi-remen-3110_believe_most-of-us-encounter-a-great-deal-more-m_2926020.png) > [I never wanted my kids to have the experience of not knowing me or where they came from. I never want them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ashley-walters/i-never-wanted-my-kids-to-have-the-experience-of-not-knowing-me-or/) [Ashley Walters](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ashley-walters/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a91/ashley-walters-5156_children_i-never-wanted-my-kids-to-have-the-exper_84413.jpg) > [“Intuition can also mean an instant recognition of a truth, sensing that you are doing the right thing in making a choice…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-clare/intuition-can-also-mean-an-instant-recognition-of-a-truth-sensing/) [Sylvia Clare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-clare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1dd/sylvia-clare-31898_doing-the-right-thin_intuition-can-also-mean-an-instant-recog_1014687.jpg) > [“There are responses which originate from joy. Intuition can also mean an instant recognition of a truth, sensing that you are doing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-clare/there-are-responses-which-originate-from-joy-intuition-can-also-mean/) [Sylvia Clare](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-clare/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ec/sylvia-clare-31898_doing-the-right-thin_there-are-responses-which-originate-from_100699.jpg) > [“…There is some firm place in me which knows that what happened to Wally, whatever it was, whatever it is that death…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-doty/there-is-some-firm-place-in-me-which-knows-that-what-happened-to/) [Mark Doty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-doty/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6fa/mark-doty-11557_contradiction_there-is-some-firm-place-in-me-which-kno_2600293.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/experience-knowing/#itemlist", "name": "Experience Knowing Quotes", "numberOfItems": 11, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Experience is knowing a lot of things you shouldnt do.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "William S. 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Intuition can also mean an instant recognition of a truth, sensing that you are doing the right thing in making a choice or decision even if it is not the immediately obvious option, or an experience of knowing the probable outcome just as it is beginning to unfold. 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And yet he’s gone, an absence so forceful it is itself a daily hourly presence. My experience of being with Wally… brought me to another sort of perception, but I can’t stay in that place, can’t sustain that way of seeing. The experience of knowing, somehow, that he’s all right, lifted in some kind process that turns at the heart of the world, gives way, as it must, to the plain aching fact that he’s gone. And doubt. And the fact that we can’t understand, that it’s our condition to not know. Is that our work in the world, to learn to dwell in such not-knowing? We need our doubt so as to not settle for easy answers. Not-knowing pushes us to struggle after meaning for ourselves…Doubt’s lesson seems to be that whatever we conclude must be provisional, open to revision, subject to correction by forces of change. Leave room, doubt says, for the unknowable, for what it will never quite be your share to see. Stanley Kunitz says somewhere that if poetry teaches us anything, it is that we can believe two completely contradictory things at once. 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