Experience Quotes

It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses.

No evidence or proof of the existence of a God has been found in the phenomena of nature, based on experience.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

Experience finds few of the scenes that lively hope designs.

The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.

Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and throwing it down on paper is unbelievably cathartic.

Those of us who have been lucky enough to experience a calling in our work have a certain faith and peace of mind that it's exactly when we're supposed to be doing.

I think the experience of feeling isolated, of not fitting in, creates the urge to explore.

Done well, marital sexuality can be a supremely healing experience.

I used to think Twitter was a waste of time and sort of ran counter to my ability to be productive and to write and now Twitter feels like a really cool part of the creative experience.

At first a golfer excuses a dismal performance by claiming bad lies. With experience, he covers up with better ones.

Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

When school friends would think about appearing on stage as the most frightening, the most awful, intimidating experience ever, I knew that it was something I could do.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.

It's been my experience that people who make proclamations about themselves are usually the opposite of what they claim to be.

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive

It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.

In my experience it's not essential to get on with the person that you're acting opposite.

Science is reaching the conclusions that we had been taught through the Tibetan Buddhist experience.

A rather honored guest of the Cuban government, so I wouldn't experience the problems. I think it would take a black Cuban to really articulate this because I'm being treated in a very generous way.

We need an America with the wisdom of experience. But we must not let America grow old in spirit.

My closet was full, yet I was always focused on the sweater I didn't have, or on the next pair of boots. I wasn't allowing myself to take in what I had. I could never experience what "enough" was.

Everyone should study at least enough philosophy and belles-lettres to make his sexual experience more delectable.

No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

Having the experience of senior guys around you just makes things easier as they all contribute ideas and set the standards for the group.

The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

You cant build any kind of organization if youre not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

Walking around a slum in a third world country quickly puts into perspective what really matters in life. It grounds you in a way that you can't experience without getting out of your bubble at home.

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves.

Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

When we smile, the world smiles with us: each experience of joy is an experience of joy for all people and a victory for human kind.

By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.

Every day, we get a little bit closer to the kind of expertise and the kind of experience we're going to need to go there. I'd love to be the guy walking on Mars.

Experience doesn't necessarily teach anything.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief.

The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought to get the rights, which was pretty fun and an incredible experience in itself.

Poetry can magnify experience.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience.

Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

Human experience is usually paradoxical.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

Big cities are chaotic. And chaos for humans - who have experience from their ancestors - is the last step before conflict. So, in the park, every kind of visual contradiction has been eliminated.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Whenever you read a book or have a conversation, the experience causes physical changes in your brain.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?