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Experience Quotes
"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience."
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"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."
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"Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I took a walk by myself in the grounds; when I went down to the gates and looked through them along the road; or when, while Adele played with her nurse, and Mrs. Fairfax made jellies in the storeroom, I climbed the three staircases, raised the trap-door of the attic, and having reached the leads, looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim sky-line - that then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen - that then I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach."
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"But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them."
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"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."
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"Both Neil and I had done solo projects where we were the boss and I just thought that if he was willing to get into it, it would really be a good experience for him."
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"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience."
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"War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged."
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"Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience."
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"Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them."
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"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience."
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"A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience."
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"Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning."
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"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
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"All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control."
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"Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama."
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"Without pleasure there is no sight or measure."
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"If the work is poor, the public taste will soon do it justice. And the author, reaping neither glory nor fortune, will learn by hard experience how to correct his mistakes."
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"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."
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"Long you must suffer, knowing not what,until suddenly out of spitefully chewed fruit your suffering's taste comes forth in you.Then you will love almost instantly what's tasted. No one will ever talk you out of it."
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"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."
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"But one never finds a cathedral, a wave in a storm, a dancer's leap in the air quite as high as one has been expecting."
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"Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it."
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"I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly."
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"I very rarely came across rude or disrespectful people. I don't know how I slipped by all of them, but I honestly can't think of one experience off the top of my head that was like that. I'm sure they're there, but I'd have to think really hard to recall them."
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"It is not age but experience that brings wisdom."
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"My one thought is to get out of New York, to experience something genuinely American."
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"In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future!"
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"No one's ever really ready for a troll."
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"It was clearly a lot more difficult in the field than in the office, where you could keep your distance and maintain a calculated composure. Being faced with real people was a far tougher call on one's judgement."
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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
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"Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality."
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"The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world."
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"The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired."
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"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
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"There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience."
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"You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none."
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"The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit that cannot be exceeded at the hour of birth or death. Then these agonies began swiftly to subside, and I came to myself as if out of a great sickness. There was something strange in my sensations, something indescribably sweet. I felt younger, lighter, happier in body; within I was conscious of a heady recklessness, a current of disordered sensual images running like a millrace in my fancy, a solution of the bonds of obligation, an unknown but innocent freedom of the soul. I knew myself, at the first breath of this new life, to be more wicked, tenfold more wicked, sold a slave to my original evil and the thought, in that moment, braced and delighted me like wine."
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"Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience."
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"I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, awaited those who had the courage to go forth into it's expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst it's perils."
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"I had to do that. At least once."
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"And then, just when you think that you have experienced all the wonders that this world has to offer, you round a peak and suddenly think you're doing the whole thing over again, but this time on drugs."
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"In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc."
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"Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right, he turns legit."
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"The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas."
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"Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment."
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"I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness."
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"Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own."
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"Our knowledge of life is limited to death."
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"If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space."
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