Experience Quotes

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Racing should never be an ordeal, rather an enjoyable and life-enhancing experience.

When I experience Love I must go to God. When I experience non-attachment God must come to me.

Just as darkness is born of the absence of light, the shadow side of our collective experience is born of ignorance of the underlying truth of the unity of life.

Acting represents all that human beings experience, and if you want it to be 'nice,' you will never be a serious communicator of the human experience.

The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.

The artist has to make the viewer understand that his world is too narrow, he has to open up to new perspectives.

The experience of emptiness is not found outside the world of ordinary appearance, as many people mistakenly assume. In truth, we experience emptiness when the mind is free of grasping at appearance.

The Infinite Way is not a message, it is an experience.

It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow.

When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.

I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.

I believe, in a funny way, the job of the novelist is to be out there on the fringes and speaking for an experience that has not really been spoken for.

Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not experience reality but merely our concept of it.

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

The flight experience itself is incredible. It's addictive. It's transcendent. It is a view of the grand plan of all things that is simply unforgettable.

One of the main functions of formalized religion is to protect people against a direct experience of God.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

There's no wrong way to experience a film.

Six weeks after his death my father appeared to me in a dream... It was an unforgettable experience, and it forced me for the first time to think about life after death.

Genuine spiritual knowledge lies not in wonderful and mysterious thoughts but in actual spiritual experience through union of the believer's life with truth.

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

The person who is willing to say yes to experience is the person who discovers new frontiers.

You may learn to imitate a birdcall, but do you experience what the nightingale feels for the rose?

It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

If the experience of science teaches anything, it's that the world is very strange and surprising. The many revolutions in science have certainly shown that.

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

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

Experience is never at bargain price.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

Saliva has testosterone and estrogen. When you kiss, you're having a chemical experience.

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.

Absolutely everything you experience in your life is a result of what you have given in your thoughts and feelings, whether you realize you have given them or not.

The experience has to be formulated in order to be communicated.

Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.