Owain Owain (1929–1993) Welsh novelist, short story writer and poet
'Y Cymro' (Welsh weekly newspaper), 23/07/1969
“By several proofs experience art has made,
Example being guide.”
Book I, line 61. Quoted by Michel de Montaigne in Essays, Vol. III, Ch. 13 (tr. Charles Cotton).
Variant translation: Experience, after many trials, perfected the art, example showing the way.
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William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) American poet
As quoted in Free Verse. Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics 2nd ed (1975)
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Robert Monroe (1915–1995) American founder of The Monroe Institute
Journeys Out of the Body (1971), Chapter 14. Mind and Supermind
“By far the best proof is experience.”
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and author
“Until language has made sense of an experience, that experience is meaningless.”
Peter Farb (1929–1980) American academic and writer
Word Play (1974)
Context: Thinking is language spoken to oneself. Until language has made sense of an experience, that experience is meaningless.
“Cuba's example is a beacon, a guiding light for all the peoples of America”
Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967) Argentine Marxist revolutionary
Tactics and Strategy of the Latin American Revolution (1962)
Context: Cuba, for example, is a vanguard outpost, an outpost which overlooks the extremely broad stretches of the economically distorted world of Latin America. Cuba's example is a beacon, a guiding light for all the peoples of America.
“Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
L'art est une démonstration dont la nature est la preuve.
François le Champi, Introduction (1848); Jane Minot Sedgwick (trans.) François the Waif {New York: H. M. Caldwell, 1894) p. 17