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The best way to truly understand narrative art is to experience it.

George Lucas

We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Curriculum should help children make deeper and fuller understanding of their own experience

Lilian Katz

If you’ve been there, no explanation is necessary. If you haven’t, none is adequate.

Lou Holtz

I write about what I know and also what I don’t understand. Emotions for what has transpired.

Lucrecia Martel

Personal participation is the universal principle of knowing.

Michael Polanyi

If you’re alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

Michael Tilson Thomas

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

George Eliot

The essence of metaphor is understanding and experiencing one kind of thing in terms of another.

George Lakoff

It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

Ken Hensley

The occurrence of an event is not the same thing as knowing what it is that one has lived through.

James A. Baldwin

An actor only has his own understanding and experience to work with.

Harrison Ford

No man should be allowed to be President who does not understand hogs.

Harry S. Truman

In life, if one wants seriously to understand how the world works, he must die at least once.

Giorgio Bassani

After a lifetime of nods, frowns and stoic smiles, they were both fluent in emotional shorthand.

Jamie Ford

Reality can be experienced only with the eye of understanding, not just by a scholar

Adi Shankara

I would never judge someone’s intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that.

Alanis Morissette

You don’t have to have lots of love affairs to know what love is.

Joshua Bell

Having been an actress before becoming a producer has helped, because I realize the needs

Shelley Duvall

One must cook a piece of meat a thousand times before one begins to truly understand it.

Andre Soltner

No one can shed light on vices he does not have or afflictions he has ever experienced.

Antonio Machado

It was one of those things that had to be experienced to be understood

Julia Quinn

If you have to explain about how something’s supposed to feel, it takes away all the magic.

Susane Colasanti

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Mark Twain

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