Of Experience Quotes
Some experiences are mis-educative. Any experience is mis-educative that has the effect of arresting or distorting the growth of further experience.
Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.
It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!
A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.
What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?
Every picture I make, every experience of my private life, every lesson I learn are the keys to my future. And I have faith in it.
A wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not a part of the mechanism.
Imagine the marvels we would experience if we believed in the things in which we don't believe.
In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.
There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.
I turned 24 in the middle of my first World Cup and it was quite an unbelievable experience. It's really hard for words to do it justice.
The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.
My experience of emptiness is that it is alive with the possibility of everything waiting to be born
Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.
In my opinion, if you buy a ticket to see me you're buying experience. People don't want to see me stand there and play guitar, they want to party with us.
My own experience is that you get as much information as you can and then you pay attention to your intuition, to your informed instinct.
The only way of learning the method of science is the long and bitter way of personal experience.
At the soul level, we get precisely what we need in our lives for our spiritual growth. How we judge what we get determines whether we experience life as painful or joyful.
Knowing is not thinking. Knowing begins when thinking ceases, having finished its work. Every new knowing is a joy, for it is a new experience of unity.
Someone like myself is not from one place. I am in total identification with the New York, French, and Palestine experience and do not stop at the borders of identity.
Yoga is the effort to experience one's divinity personally and then to hold on to that experience forever.
But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.
Change is no modern invention. It is as old as time and as unlikely to disappear. It has always to be counted on as of the essence of human experience.
O thou, whose days are yet all spring, Faith, blighted once, is past retrieving; Experience is a dumb, dead thing; The victory's in believing.
We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.
Dying is nothing to fear. It can be the most wonderful experience of your life. It all depends on how you've lived.
Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.
I view my career like a rubber-band ball in that every role is a new experience building toward something bigger.
Big-picture thinkers broaden their outlook by striving to learn from every experience. They don't rest on their successes, they learn from them.
When experience is viewed in a certain way, it presents nothing but doorways into the soul.
Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.
Character is the spiritual body of the person, and represents the individualization of vital experience, the conversion of unconscious things into self-conscious men.
The idea that you make an experience that requires a conversation in a public place is training for the fact that culture is collective.
All knowing that goes beyond the immediate experience of the moment is a matter of faith.
And the closest I've come to an out-of-body experience was when Joe Morelli took his mouth to me fourteen years ago, behind the eclair case.
How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.
The human mind is kind of like a piñata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the piñata perspective, you see that losing your mind can be a peak experience.
Generally speaking, there are two kinds of learning: experience, which is gained from your own mistakes, and wisdom, which is learned from the mistakes of others.
I am more comfortable doing comedy, and I want to perform comedy. When you can really make someone laugh, that's a healing experience. It's like music. A lot of music is really healing.
