Experience Quotes

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

[Plato] was the first to envisage the idea of timeless existence and to emphasize it-against reason-as a reality, more [real] than our actual experience.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

I see the psychedelic experience as a birthright, and we can't have a free society until people are free to explore their own mind.

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

When your time is turned into money, the felt presence of immediate experience is analogous to being enslaved. I mean, let's be frank about it, it is enslavement.

Spirituality is a boundless ability to respond and experience.

You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.

Another reality about relationships is that they are never static. All of us experience changes in relationships but a few stop to analyse why a relationship gets better or worse.

Without an understanding and a familiarity of the psychedelic experience you should be sued for fraud if you're practicing psychotherapy.

The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of creation is Shambho.

I try to keep myself grounded and to stay true to who I am through every experience, positive or negative.

I see the psychedelic experience as both the centerpiece of prehistoric life and destined to be the centerpiece of any future that we want to be part of.

Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you...

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting.

My experience as a pastor is lots of people have really toxic, dangerous, psychologically devastating images of God in their head, images of a God who's not good.

This conducting thing happened. In 1983 I was sucked into this international career, which was a very scary experience.

Memory is a fascinating trickster. Words and images have enormous power and can easily displace actual experience over the years.

...the artist treats intuition and nuance with respect and reminds us that a little madness resides in all of us. Artists give voice to feelings, to conflict, to the prism of human experience.

The missionary experience is part of Christian formation and it is important for adolescents and young people to be able to live it personally.

A precision of composition and figuration is what I'm working toward. I've always felt viewers should have an experience without having to ask what the hell is was about.

The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

Temptation is a dress rehearsal for a karmic experience of negativity.

The experience of life that you and I have is pretty much a jigsaw puzzle in the box: Day-to-day experiences of disconnected pieces that don't seem to justify the efforts we make each day.

The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the physical experience for the purpose of learning.

I take my own experience and other assassinations through history and get a lot into the drone program, which doesn't work, as well.

The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

We've always lived in dark times. There has always been a range of human experience from the sublime to the brutal, and stories reflect it. It's no less brutal now; each age has its horrors.

His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon!

Jesus kept his wounds so that we would experience his mercy. This is our strength and our hope.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

To make your life a work of art, you must have the material to work with. The race, any race, is just such an experience.

We are learning, day by day, about the gift of agency that allows us to experience the consequences, good and bad, of our own choices.

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities contract not only an effeminacy of habit, but of thinking.

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or a story.

I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question how they judge people, in general.

The experience awakened 'my tremendous musical ambition, which has never subsided to this day.

True counselors of despair are those who hope against hope—and historical experience—that the government can and will act constructively.

I conduct my life with an expectation that people will do the right thing. Yet even with all my experience, I am still surprised when they do not.

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Life is not supposed to be this calcified experience where you don't change.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around.

I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well.

Human experience throughout the ages has been enhanced through learning, information and communication.