Of Experience Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

I absolutely love being back in Nebraska and I love that my wife is able to experience a lot of the great things that made me love this place years ago. The lifestyle, the people.

Intelligence plus experience creates ideas, and experimentation with that form of chemistry-the contact of ideas with events-is the field of adult education.

Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.

There is no change - I'm as deep or as shallow as I ever was. What's new is on-the-job experience. This is what you gain with years.

Each picture you take has power as long as it brings experience to the person who’s looking at it.

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.

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.

Intuition is the conscious experience - in pure spirit - of a purely spiritual content.

The ability to experience and understand what others feel without confusion between oneself and others.

With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate.

Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in the experience of many people for whom this existential space is important.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

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

...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.

Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of work ahead of me.

Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.

I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.

I try not to cry, in general. The experience of crying is so emotional and uncomfortable for me that I don't like to go there.

...experience should warn us that tough and unpopular decisions are only made under intense political pressure produced by urgent necessity.

My big struggle has been how to expand my mind without being able to expand my physical experience of the world.

It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way things actually work

Of two men who have no experience of God, he who denies him is perhaps nearer to him than the other.

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.

From my experience of life I believe my personal motto should be: 'Beware of any man bringing flowers.

Everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe, the realest, most vivid and important person in existence.

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

There is a level of fame that is really unmanageable. But most of the people who experience that level of fame are compensated in other ways. Private villas and chauffeured boats.

Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

I think what makes compelling fiction or cinema is when you're basically taking the most intense moments of experience and you're creating a song or a narrative out of it.

Mass market desire is about meaning and experience.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

I have gone from “being” my experience to being infinite consciousness having the experience and observing the experience.