Experience Quotes

As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for ...

We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the ...

There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, ...

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's pro...

I believe in this being, not because I have any proper or direct knowledge of His existence, but I a...

It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and t...

The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to b...

The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrumen...

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

Thinking is not enough. Nothing is. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience--any fucking thin...

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in ...

The buzzard has nothing to fault himself with.Scruples are alien to the black panther.Piranhas do no...

My understanding of the creative process is simply that all cultures and all concerns meet at a cert...

When the course of experience made me see that there is no saviour and no special grace, no remissio...

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been re...

I went to Northwestern because I had gone to a really nontraditional high school. I was like, 'It'd ...

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, ...

...you got tuh go there tuh know there.

"Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. ...

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, i...

The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible...

You wrote something easily in youth, and later you came to see how difficult it all was.

I think deeply about things and want others to do likewise. I work for ideas and learn from people. ...

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony beca...

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

In fact there is only your own instinct?Not instinct, Hastings. Instinct is a bad word. It is my kno...

Youth is a failing only tooeasily outgrown.

Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

Intuition is unconscious accumulated experience informing judgement in real time.

Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to ...

The spirituality that I experience sometimes touches on religion, in that I resonate with the thread...

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and s...

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such an authority over us that we...

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which sta...

Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous activities, but see that yo...

When I call to mind my earliest impressions, I wonder whether the process ordinarily referred to as ...

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

We float in language like icebergs – four-fifths under the surface and only one-fifth of us projecti...

It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most o...

To make biological survival possible, Mind at Large has to be funnelled through the reducing valve o...

Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest ...

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spi...

The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in see...

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pa...

Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experien...

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the huma...

Vipassana meditation is not an intellectual journey but an experiential awakening.

When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enrichi...

[Y]ou have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The ful...

I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the c...

I don't have much experience, but the few times when I would go on a date with a girl - like when I ...

If the ability to make use of experience and draw conclusions decided, we would have forgotten what ...

I'm not a romantic. In life I didn't have much experience with romance.

We've always had this experience that things take long, but I'm 100% convinced that our principles w...

Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly.

Oh, Youth may listen patiently,While sad Experience tells her tale,But Doubt sits smiling in his eye...

I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my...

Man is a spiritual intelligence, who has taken flesh with the object of gaining experience in worlds...

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you've got great food and adventure. First and foremos...

Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole lif...

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France...

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man.

I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, ...

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from exp...

For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or...

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do ...

Well,' said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return once more to London, 'it has been a...

Experience is the extract of suffering.

I speak here of poetry as a revelatory distillation of experience, not the sterile word play that, t...

I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to lif...

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With yo...

I no longer believe that we can keep silent. We never really do, mind you. In one way or another we ...

I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience ...

It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing f...

Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days ...

If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, there ar...

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the wor...

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than m...

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to t...

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Age is only a number a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. E...

I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at al...

Experience makes good people better." She was staring at the lake. "How does it do that?" "Through t...

Some care is needed in using Descartes' argument. "I think, therefore I am" says rather more than is...

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I do...

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...