Experience Quotes

"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."

"I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited."

"I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."

"Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other."

"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."

"The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct."

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

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

"To wear a floral shirt is an experience."

"Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?"

"How we experience memory sometimes, it's not linear. We're not telling the stories to ourselves. We know the story; we're just seeing it in flashes overlaid."

"Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments."

"I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"

"I once had an extraordinary experience with former prime minister Ted Heath. Both of his eyes, including the whites, turned jet black, and I seemed to be looking into two black holes."

"One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves."

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations."

"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."

"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."

"Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them."

"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."

"We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us."

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

"Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity."

"I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay."

"Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good."

"The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes 'sight-seeing.'"

"The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice."

"Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it."

"The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision."

"Maturity and experience are part of my liberation."

"From my own experience, I know how important reading together can be for parents and children."

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

"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."

"One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is."

"If you want plenty of experience in dealing with difficult people, then have kids."

"You can't be what you can't see. Expose yourself to more role models and diverse experience to broaden your perspectives and ideas."

"It's been said that astronomy is a humbling and, I might add, a character-building experience."

"Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."

"What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children."

"The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience."

"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."

"Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."

"Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl."

"Food is not just eating energy. It's an experience."

"It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be."

"I had been a Maoist, and then when the Gang of Four was overthrown, I was completely distraught. I was bedridden for three weeks; it was a very painful experience for me. Not only because I had been wrong, but because I felt really embarrassed that I had been lecturing and pontificating with such self-confidence."

"Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions."

"Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be."

"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."

"If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires."