Of Experience Quotes
To him who has had the experience no explanation is necessary, to him who has not, none is possible.
Edinburgh is an experience A city of enormous gifts Whose streets sing of history Whose cobbles tell tales.
The mortal experience . . . is not like a college course which we can passively audit. Instead, we are taking life's course for credit and there are no summers off - not even semester breaks.
I bet if you go through the rest of your life telling yourself, "I'm sparkling," you'll have a whole different energy and experience.
When consciousness has no thoughts in it, one can experience spirit and live in harmony with the universal forces.
Before philosophy can teach by Experience, the Philosophy has to be in readiness, the Experience must be gathered and intelligibly recorded.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience.
It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
Flair-a primitive kind of style-may be innate, but I think knowledgeable taste is learned, the result of travel, experience, living, education.
It is only through love that we can attain to communion with God. All living knowledge of God rests upon this foundation: that we experience him in our lives as Will-to-love.
My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.
The experience taught me to be present in the real Buddhist sense of paying attention to the moment.
The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing.
I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.
My experience...convinced me that tea was better than brandy, and during the last six months in Afica I took no brandy, even when sick taking tea instead.
Everybody I've ever worked with - 99.9 percent of the time, I've had a successful or very agreeable experience with.
After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America.
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies and easily discount/dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.
I know when I go to a movie I want to experience something, whether to laugh, to cry, to feel bad.
What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level.
My experience in Gujarat shows that howsoever big a problem might be, it is not insurmountable if we have the will to act.
Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.
It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.
An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
Curiosity is my natural state and has led me headlong into every worthwhile experience (never mind the others) I have ever had.
Liev cares about a lot things. Israel is one of them. We had the good fortune of going there a couple of years ago. To share that experience with him was a great pleasure.
You don’t need help to write a song. You just need to get over this experience that bummed you out so bad. The relationship you were in is over, it was over a long time ago, and you need to move on.
For me, ideology is defined only by how the coordinates of your meaningful experience of the world, and your place within society, relate to the basic tensions and antagonisms of social orders.
My work is more driven by the creative word. It's immersed in other writing and printed work, rather than drawn so much from life or past experience.
Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.
My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.
It's the only hallucinogen I know, where if it's made right, the next day, or the day after the experience, you actually feel better than if you hadn't done it.
In my view, the holy is not based so much on the physical environment, but on the experience and perceptions of it.
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.
For how do we know that the thoughts which occur in dreaming are false rather than those others which we experience when awake, since the former are often not less vivid and distinct than the latter?