Of Experience Quotes

When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent to experience.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

I saw why people died and how they died. I saw gunshot wounds and liver failure. It was a good learning experience, so I came regularly on weekends and holidays.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight.

I have not seen the Himalayas. But I have seen Sheikh Mujib. In personality and in courage, this man is the Himalayas. I have thus had the experience of witnessing the Himalayas.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.

Measure your progress by your experience of the love of God and its exercise before men.

How we pay attention to the present moment...determin es the character of our experience and...the quality of our lives.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

If you are weak in the endgame, you must spend more time analysing studies; in your training games you must aim at transposing to endgames, which will help you to acquire the requisite experience.

Don’t be afraid to speak from personal experience; in many ways, those vulnerable moments will be the key that unlocks a hardened heart.

Hallucinations are an inner experience in which most of the time you forget you're there.

What is a champion but a guy that didn't quit?... Life is a continuous experience. You only fail by not learning.

Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.

I believe dreams represent the purest form of fantasy we unleash through our subconscious. They represent the truest freedom we can experience. Totally unrepressed and totally creative.

If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science.

[A] journey becomes a pilgrimage as we discover, day by day, that the distance traveled is less important than the experience gained.

If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.

How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

The story of the African-American people is the story of the settlement and growth of America itself, a universal tale that all people should experience.

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.

Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.

If we learn from the experience, there is no failure, only delayed victory.

Man may penetrate the outer reaches of the universe, he may solve the very secret of eternity itself but for me, the ultimate human experience is to witness the flawless execution of the hit-and-run.

In time, and as one comes to benefit from experience, one learns that things will turn out neither as well as one hoped nor as badly as one feared.

A young Brit girl with no theatre experience decided to take on an iconic American role on Broadway. Maybe I should have thought that through?

As long as you are unable to access the power of the Now, every emotional pain that you experience leaves behind a residue of pain that lives on in you.

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.

In the past I had to deal with issues that hit me as a younger man. As a man who wasn't married who didn't really have the experience that I have now. Today I'm a different guy.

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.

The journey home to God is what life is about. In a sense it's not even a journey. It's an ongoing experience.

Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them

Nothing can prepare you for living or working with a sociopathic serial bully. It is the most devastating, draining, misunderstood, and ultimately futile experience imaginable.