Difficult Quote by Michael Crichton

“It's hard to observe without imposing a theory to explain what we're seeing, but the trouble with theories, as Einstein said, is that they…

— Michael Crichton

Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere…

— B. H. Liddell Hart

I eventually realized that direct experience is the most valuable experience I can have. Western man is so surrounded by ideas, so bombarded with…

— Michael Crichton

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

— Fernando Pessoa

Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to…

— Terence McKenna

“Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a museum show until we've…

— Michael Crichton

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without…

— Paul Feyerabend

We are so numb we don't even know what a direct experience is. We have an experience, then we think about it and we…

— Stephen Levine

To experience anything fully and see it clearly there must be a moment of presence where conceptual thinking is not interfering with your experience…

— Eckhart Tolle

Time, presence and physical attentiveness are our most basic proxies for something ultimately unprovable: that we are understood.

— Tom Chatfield

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

— Immanuel Kant

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

— Hosea Ballou