40 Quotes About Experimentation

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism.

At the age of 49, I had given up on the medical profession correctly diagnosing me and I was only attending doctors appointments for legal documentation of health conditions that I was accurately diagnosing through internet research and experimentation.

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

By experimenting with sympathetic joy, we break from the constricted world of individual struggle and see that joy exists in more places than we have yet imagined.

In times of rapid disruption and change, what we often realize quite painfully, is that all we have are experts on yesterday. No one is a true expert on tomorrow

Exploration and experimentation of new ways of being, in isolation, does not support change.

The San Francisco therapist kept telling me I shouldn’t be terrified of creative experimentation.“I don’t know what’s going to come out of me,” I told her. “It has to be perfect. It has to be irreproachable in every way.”“Why?” she said.“To make up for it,” I said. “To make up for the fact that it’s me.

Rather than swallowing our pride and simply asking what we do not know, we choose to fill in the blanks ourselves and later become humbled. Wisdom was often, in its youth, proven foolish, and ones humiliated were meant to become wise.

But he was a perfect gentleman, Aunt Amelia. He did not even try to kiss me, though he wanted to. ... You always tell me I must be receptive to broadening experiences. That would have been a broadening experience. And, from what I have observed, a very enjoyable one.