Experience Quotes

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

"A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood."

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."

"Adventure is worthwhile."

"All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary."

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience."

"All of the legal defense funds out there, they're looking for people out there with court of appeals experience, because court of appeals is where policy is made. And I know, I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know. I know."

"All that I know I learned after I was thirty."

"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."

"Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."

"America is known as a country that welcomes people to its shores. All kinds of people. The image of the Statue of Liberty with Emma Lazarus' famous poem. She lifts her lamp and welcomes people to the golden shore, where they will not experience prejudice because of the color of their skin, the religious faith that they follow."

"An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience."

"An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience."

"And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble."

"And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high."

"Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience."

"As human beings, we are vulnerable to confusing the unprecedented with the improbable. In our everyday experience, if something has never happened before, we are generally safe in assuming it is not going to happen in the future, but the exceptions can kill you and climate change is one of those exceptions."

"Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience."

"Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception."

"Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives."

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

"But constant experience shows us that every man invested with power is apt to abuse it, and to carry his authority as far as it will go."

"But inner experience is only one source of human knowledge."

"But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience."

"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

"China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience."

"Conviction without experience makes for harshness."

"Digital time does not flow; it flicks. Like any binary, discrete decision, it is either here or there. In contrast to our experience of the passing of time, digital time is always in the now, or in no time. It is still. Poised."

"Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen. So it is a shocking experience to them that he came in to office."

"Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali."

"Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow."

"Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience."

"Every Christian who strives for holiness of life experiences dryness of soul. It is to most people a heart-rending experience. It is a paradox, for the soul becomes confused when it realizes the harder it strives the further away Jesus seems to be."

"Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself."

"Every experience is different, teaches you a new thing - good or bad - and you just take it, learn from it and move on."

"Every moment is an experience."

"Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience."

"Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works."

"Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior."

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."

"Exile is not a time frame. Exile is an experience. It's a sentiment."

"Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."

"Experience acquired in the heroic battle against Batista's tyranny showed that the enemy, no matter what his strength, could not defeat the Cuban people."

"Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor."