Behavior Quote by Marshall McLuhan

Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation.

— H. L. Mencken

Explanation is not half as strong as experience but experience is not half as strong as experience and understanding

— Mark Z. Danielewski

They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.

— Khalil

The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

— John Locke

Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another…

— Aleister Crowley

Experience precedes understanding.

— Jean Piaget

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

— Immanuel Kant

Knowledge by itself does not give understanding. Nor is understanding increased by an increase of knowledge alone. Understanding depends upon the relation of knowledge…

— G. I. Gurdjieff

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone…

— Andre Gide

Understanding brings control.

— Isaac Bonewits

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

— Robert Delaunay

“Human behavior is influenced more strongly by the rules we have about how things are supposed to work than by our actual experience.”

— Susan M. Orsillo