Of Experience Quotes

We are all children starving to experience and know the heart of reality.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

...In the history of medicine and science, no chronic or metabolic disease has been cured by factors foreign to the diet, (or) to biological experience.

I think coexisting with another life form is a very rich experience. It's why people keep plants and animals.

Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Experience is the only teacher we have.

Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification.

Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins.

It's easier to identify with loss than love, because we have had so much more experience of it.

We do but learn to-day what our better advanced judgements will unteach us tomorrow.

Every day you make some progress and every day you make a few mistakes. Through it all, your wisdom continues to grow and your experience continues to broaden.

Experience proves that those are oftenest abused who can be abused with the greatest impunity. Men are whipped oftenest who are whipped easiest.

The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.

death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

This impure world that we presently experience exists only in relation to our impure mind.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.

Giving love is the real beautiful experience, because then you are an emperor.

That’s why people who seek out group flow often join startups or work for themselves. Serial entrepreneurs keep starting new business as much for the flow experience, as for the additional success.

…that's what old people are here for, — else their experience is of little use.

If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experience

My experience in the music industry made me very thick-skinned. Your art is something very personal and there's never a shortage of critics when it comes to art.

I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.

I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought; but it's been my experience that a good many more use it instead of thought.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience.

Experience teaches. [Lat., Experientia docet.]

Everybody has an instinctive desire to do good things and avoid evil. But that desire is sterile as long as we have no experience of what it means to be good.

To become attached to the experience of peace is to threaten the true and essential and vital union of our soul with God above sense and experience in the darkness of a pure and perfect love.

History is clarified experience.

People substitute tradition for the living experience of the love of God. They talk and think as though walking with God was attained by walking in the footsteps of people who walked with God.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

Experience only can teach men not to prefer what strikes them for the present moment, to what will have much greater weight with the them hereafter.

Anger causes anguish to the souls of all of those who experience the feeling as well as to those who are the recipients of this emotional explosion.

I don't think that anyone should ever give up on whatever it is that they dream of. Obstacles will come their way, but everything is a learning experience and it all works out for the good anyway.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

Nobody in the city of Los Angeles knows how to catch an alligator, ... We have no experience in recreation and parks, the zoo or animal control.

Are you here to experience life or think about it?

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else.

Marriage is nature's way of ensuring that a woman picks up some mothering experience before she has her first child.

The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for.

When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you look back and realize how special they were.

Whether it is suffering or joy, going through experiences in life is not so much of a karma. Depriving yourself of any experience is the big karma.

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.