Direct Experience Quotes

51 quotes by 50 authors

It is always the case, with mathematics, that a little direct experience of thinking over things on your own can provide a much deeper understanding… — Roger Penrose
Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that… — B. H. Liddell Hart
All those years I fell for the great palace lie that grief should be gotten over as quickly as possible and as privately. But, what… — Anne Lamott
Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds. — Oliver Sacks
Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation and unimpeachable hope.… — Gregory Palamas
In daily terms, the work of listening is to be constantly worn free of our preconceptions and preferences so that nothing stands in the way… — Mark Nepo
When you wake up to the Divine Consciousness within you and your divine identity, you wake up simultaneously to the Divine Consciousness appearing as all… — Andrew Harvey
If science is an unfinished project, the next stage will be about reconnecting and integrating the rigor of scientific method with the richness of direct… — Betty Sue Flowers
If, on the other hand, we wish to describe a particular phenomenon without repressing our direct experience, then we cannot avoid speaking of the phenomenon… — David Abram
Pure love is who you are! When you express pure love, you give yourself the direct experience of who you are. It is the greatest… — Neale Donald Walsch
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience. — John Fowles
I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much… — Richard K. Morgan
I think many years ago I got on a bus in L.A. and drove around to see the stars' homes, but that's the extent of… — Justin Cronin
In our quest to quickly make three-dimensional objects, we can miss out on the experience of making something that helps give us our first understandings… — Jonathan Ive
People are always fascinated by infidelity because, in the end - whether we've had direct experience or not - there's part of you that knows… — Junot Diaz
Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions. — Robert M. Pirsig
If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the… — Mao Zedong
As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it… — Martin Filler
We who have touched war have a duty to bring the truth about war to those who have not had a direct experience of it.… — Nhat Hanh

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