Experience Quotes

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason...

My conduct with my friends is motivated: each being is, I believe, incapable on his own, of going to...

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because m...

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

If we can just let go and trust that things will work out they way they're supposed to, without tryi...

Listen to my advice; I have some experience. In a way, it is me being a teacher, which is what I wan...

For writers it is always said that the first twenty years of life contain the whole of experience – ...

A brain was only capable of what it could conceive, and it couldn't conceive what it had never exper...

I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath,...

Kelly was not going to remove her glasses. No matter what the television said about it being safe to...

Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can se...

What a huge inaccessible lumber-room of thought and experience we amounted to, I thought; how much w...

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itsel...

Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experien...

I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined ...

I am a student of life, and don't want to miss any experience. There's poetry in this sort of thing,...

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can...

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,To gain all while you give,To roam the roads of lands remote,T...

The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses hims...

The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses hims...

Reading well is one of the great pleasuresthat solitude can afford you, because it isat least in my ...

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustic...

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen...

There were times he thought it would have been far better to never have known. Yet he continued to r...

The power to concentrate was the most important thing. Living without this power would be like openi...

The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grows stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can ...

Our Western society is showing its technological muscles in ever more threatening ways, but the expe...

The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man wil...

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Experience is in the fingers and the head. The heart is inexperienced.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new ...

God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ...

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and a...

Deep experience is never peaceful.

I describe management as arts, crafts and science. It is a practice that draws on arts, craft and sc...

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and unde...

Being in New York is an almost overwhelming experience. While Washington, D.C., is my favorite Ameri...

I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own spa...

Yeah, that’s my experience. Humbling to the point where you have major regrets about some of the stu...

It [enlightenment] has not come to you by means of teaching! And-thus is my thought, oh exalted one,...

It is good," he thought, "to get a taste of everything for oneself, which one needs to know. That lu...

That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made--you read a book, you meet a p...

I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experi...

But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of ...

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how should the faculty of k...

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child l...

If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

Now most people would put this doon tae experience, ye always want what ye cannae have and the thing...

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it aw...

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

It's a bit cliche, but you can't go wrong by writing what you know. Even if you're a horrible writer...

Most learning is not the result of instruction. It is rather the result of unhampered participation ...

You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a ...

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in ...

The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of convict...

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet....

Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every ...

I think it's important and I think it's true that our life experience is going to be about our attit...

When you're growing up, your dad is your superhero. Once you've let yourself fall that in love with ...

I constantly experience failure in that my work is never as good as I want it to be. So I live with ...

This is the best worst time of my life.

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree', or `that is a banyan t...

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, ...

Didn't you read the owner's ma

I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience ...

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for...

I share the anger, but, ultimately, to govern this country, it takes more than anger. It takes exper...

Nothing can be compared to the new life that the discovery of another country provides for a thought...

I know that there is a great diversity of opinion as to who, in fact, pays the duties on imports. I ...

The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.

We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from ...

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the ende...

Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful.

Look, Miranda, he said, those twenty long years that lie between you and me. I've more knowledge of ...

When I was a child I truly loved:Unthinking love as calm and deepAs the North Sea. But I have lived,...

People are like that .... They need to make their own worst experiences universal. It gives them a k...

A proverb is no proverb to you till life has illustrated it.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illust...

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Take all of your wasted honorEvery little past frustrationTake all of your so-called problems,Better...

In 1987, I had my first opportunity to provide 'advice and consent' on a Supreme Court nominee. At t...

I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood wi...

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. T...

I'm a very passionate believer in the unity of knowledge. There is one world of reality - one world ...

For a while, I was saying 'no' way too often. I turned down 'An Officer and A Gentleman,' 'Splash' a...

Adults, in their dealing with children, are insane," he [Ed Ricketts] said. "And children know it to...

The four most expensive word in the English language are 'This time it's different.

... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or ...

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.