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- But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. — George Eliot
- Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. — Edgar Allan Poe
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. — George Bernard Shaw
- Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. — Richard Courant