Experience Quotes

The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.

I like natural disasters and I think that they may be the highest form of art possible to experience

The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any experience without judgement.

The best teacher in life is experience.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.

Man's troubles are rooted in extreme attention to senses, thoughts, and imagination. Attention should be focused internally to experience a quiet body and a calm mind.

Only ... from personal experience [can a man] take the necessary measures without a preliminary process of trial and error.

I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.

Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.

A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it's a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don't find it to have anything to do with strength.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.

Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.

And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

To experience brokenness and humiliation all you have to do is lead.

I have experience seducing nephews.

It is futile for us to try to serve God without the power of the Holy Spirit. Talent, training, and experience cannot take the place of the power of the Spirit.

Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred.

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer, nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything. That's my idea.

I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you’re painting.

If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. You have to experience life to understand life.

Philosophy begins with the understanding that you cannot just observe or experience and then report what you see, because how you conceptualize and symbolize alters experience.

Thank you for that experience.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing

The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.

Underlying great doubt there is great satori, where there is thorough questioning there will be thoroughgoing experience of awakening.

As a street artist, I'm used to sharing my stuff with the public. It's a communal experience. I've learned not to be so precious, but rather to enjoy the process.

Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

Sometimes consciousness devises an obstacle in order to have the experience of transcending it.

Power is knowing your past.

And in a situation of war, we all experience it in much the same way, either as victim or perpetrator. So I’m not narrating a particular story. I’m just addressing experiences.

Difficulties come into our lives to develop us. Every storm is a school. Every trial is a teacher. Every experience is an education.

Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life.

To experience some healing within yourself, and to contribute healing to the world, you are summoned to wade through the muck from time to time.

We are all meaning-seeking, meaning creating creatures and when we experience the loss of meaning, we suffer.

The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.

Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

My experience from 20 years of Africa is that the seemingly impossible is possible.

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.

I no longer scramble blindly through hardship. I no longer emerge from a bad time feeling relieved just to have survived. Instead of despairing, I try to find the lesson within the experience.

You can either ask the question or experience the answer.