Of Experience Quotes

To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly.

Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience.

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

When anyone apologizes to us he has to do it very expertly: otherwise we might easily come to see ourselves as the guilty party and experience unpleasant feelings.

A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'

If you clear that negative feeling and forgive yourself, then you can see the world from a different lens. You stop attracting that same type of experience. You can set yourself free.

Eating and food are a wonderful part of our life's experience, and half of us are walking around dreading having to figure out what to put in our mouths.

I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.

If you are going to forgive a person, Liz decides, it is best to do it sooner rather than later. Later, Liz knows from experience, could be sooner than you thought.

Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.

The collective experience of watching a great film together in a room is a transcendent moment that will never die.

Really, Channing,” remonstrated Alexia, “did you have to eat the man’s dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like.

Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.

I don't have anything to say in any picture. But you do, from your experience, surmise something. You do give a photograph symbolic content, narrative content... But it's nothing to worry about!

Everybody's entitled to their own experience.

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

I think having an open mind about these things is probably the most important thing, because even though I've never had an experience of the supernatural, something I couldn't explain.

I had a 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' experience as governor.

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

Connectivity and technologies are not only solving some of the biggest problems in the world, but they're also enhancing the experience for everyone.

No birth is an accident, No experience is without meaning, and no life is without value.

Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

We shall come to honor all of Life sooner or later. Our choices are when that shall happen, and the quality of experience that we shall have as we learn.

Without an awareness of our feelings we cannot experience compassion. How can we share the sufferings and the joys of others if we cannot experience our own?

Whenever there's the experience of a broken heart, there's the experience of fear.

You must experience everything that you are feeling. This is what will lead you to the splintered parts of your personality.

To verify images kills them, and it is always more enriching to imagine than to experience.

Never in my short career, I've never had that experience where I wasn't sure if I was acting or if it was real.

Do you think it takes true pain to experience true pleasure?

Fried twinkies? Paris nodded. Only once, I've never forgotten the experience. It's like heaven in your mouth, man.

When you experience having nothing you value everything - and that applies to all aspects of life.

Characters who experience great trauma will sometimes create an escape.

Everyone is perfectly willing to learn from unpleasant experience - if only the damage of the first lesson could be repaired.

Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this--who once has loved, loves never on earth again!

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.

As a religious priest I find it a very enriching experience to do my scientific research.

Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?

All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony.

Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot.

Vrndavana is one of the holiest cities in India. Everyone, everywhere, chants Hare Krishna. It was my most fantastic experience.

Individual experiences being limited and individual spontaneity feeble, we are strengthened and enriched by assimilating the experience of others.

Whatever lies beyond the limits of experience, and claims another origin than that of induction and deduction from established data, is illegitimate.

I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't know where I'm going to take my career.

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail.

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes.

If somebody dies and you just go get more popcorn, it’s a superficial experience isn’t it?

Is it indeed from the experience of beauty and happiness, from the occasional harmony between our nature and our environment, that we draw our conception of the divine life.

Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.