Of Experience Quotes

You cannot experience what you don't know. And you don't know you are in "heaven" right now because you have not experienced it.

Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

All great truths begin as blasphemy. Every single revolutionary idea that has ever been visited upon the human experience began as an idea which was rejected.

The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.

Look Upon Every Experience You've Ever Had ... as Having Been Sent to You for Your Benefit

Awakening to the truth is a deep realization of what you are as an experience. What is it that is listening? What is it that is feeling? Feel it. Sense it. Welcome it.

Experience is always larger than language.

If the imagination is to transcend and transform experience it has to question, to challenge, to conceive of alternatives, perhaps to the very life you are living at the moment.

Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

There have always been poets who performed. Blake sang his Songs of Innocence and Experience to parties of friends.

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.

Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

How you experience your present is completely shaped by what you believe your ultimate future to be.

Prayer turns theology into experience.

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

And it seems to me in that experience may lie at least some of the clues for policy development perhaps constitutional changes as well that Labour will need to make at the national level too.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.

Barren, barren and trivial are these words. But not barren the experience.

You know, bigotry isn't relevant to just the South. It never was. But I'm very grateful that I don't know what it's like from experience.

The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important. There can be no substitute for my experience and intuited knowledge.

Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.

Your life and your practice should not be separate. You bring your practice into experience. You bring it about.

I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.

Each succeeding day is the scholar of that which went before it.

Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.

Japan's experience suggests the importance of assessing the sustainability of price stability over a fairly long period, which many central banks have emphasized in recent years.

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

Failures and setbacks are a part of this experience, and it will remain in you as wisdom.

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience.

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

I think of what the experience is of going into the building, of spending time in it, and try to get a sense of what the building would be like to work in as well.

If only everyone could experience the joy of being Christian, being loved by God Who gave His Son for us!

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

When we experience our fear, when we say the words "I am scared," we have the choice, the ability to acknowledge that being 'scared' is not who we are. It is not our identity.

To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.

In my experience I haven't met too many uptight black people. I'm sure they're out there. Like I'm some big authority and I've lived in the inner city and ghetto.

I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.

Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.

Art is an emotional experience

I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.

There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.