Experience Quotes

We learn from failure, not from success!

Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not wa...

My trust in God flows out of the experience of his loving me, day in and day out, whether the day is...

I've learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften ...

You have neither the clout nor the experience to make a threat like that, Victor.

Relativity challenges your basic intuitions that you've built up from everyday experience. It says y...

Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confus...

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a cha...

I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in way...

I think the people who experienced the Apollo missions came away from that experience wondering to t...

As someone who flew two space capsules and twice landed in the ocean, I can attest from personal exp...

Space travel for everyone is the next frontier in the human experience.

I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth ...

My expertise is the space program and what it should be in the future based on my experience of look...

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from...

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patie...

We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they tha...

Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity...

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and...

Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough

I grew up in a bookless house - my parents didn't read poetry, so if I hadn't had the chance to expe...

People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government...

What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poe...

You knew how humiliating that is as an experience for celebrities to be less of a celebrity. There's...

All knowledge hurts.

Tessa: Are all vampires like that? Cold like that?Charlotte: Many of them have been alive a long tim...

Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age...

American government did not originate in any abstract theories about liberty and equality, but in th...

But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even C...

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

A rare experience of a moment at daybreak, when something in nature seems to reveal all consciousnes...

The most special relationships, in my experience, are based on a combination of trust and mutual res...

To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the groun...

Winning isn’t everything, but losing isn’t anything.

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't re...

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come ou...

I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or becau...

To pass its threshold was to return to stagnation; to cross the silent hall, to ascend the darksome ...

Sometimes translation stops you understanding.

People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them ...

The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The...

I think that one of the main privileges of what I do, which I am just starting to learn, is to have ...

The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of...

One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good th...

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to re...

They keep telling you, when you’re older, you’ll have experience—and that’s supposed to be so great....

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns and the probl...

You had a near life experience.

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human...

It so happens that the primary though - as an act of thought - already has a form and is more easily...

But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a ...

And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God...

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better...

When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experie...

Art is basically communication, and I think everyone who's a music lover has had that experience whe...

He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it...

Our minds are so cluttered with endless to-do lists that there's no room for us to experience the jo...

She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by t...

True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like...

My mom and dad were actors when they were younger and had a horrible experience of it. My dad became...

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, ...

I was born into a town and a family and the town ad my family happened to me. I own none of it. It i...

Recordings aren't time sensitive. You can hear the music you want whether it's morning, noon, or the...

I am apt, however, to entertain a Suspicion, that the World is still too young to fix any general st...

Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future a...

From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having ...

By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to di...

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human...

Have you ever felt love?Did you need scientific proof of this? How would you have definitively and s...

There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and a...

I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I sh...

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds...

And if my heart be scarred and burned,The safer, I, for all I learned.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

I think there are a number of things that you can do to encourage your kids' dreams, but I do believ...

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experien...

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience ...

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can...

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How ...

Experience by itself is not science.

In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really need...

What a gulf between the self which experiences and the self which describes experience.

Strange how few After all's said and done the things that are Of moment.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is Californ...

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices--just recognize them.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas but for scars!

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear...

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and witho...