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Experience Quotes


"All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!"



"What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant..."



"Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have."


"You have to feel the bite of the wind to appreciate the warmth of a winter coat."



"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."


"There is more experience on the field of justification than on the camp of training. Sometimes, you got to take actions to learn more."



"Bring real and practical life experience to the people."


"Experience is everything."


"We only truly understand what we experience."


"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."


"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"


"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."


"I wear my wrinkles like battle scars, having earned every last one slaying life's dragons. They boast of my victories and some defeats while their beauty is a wealth of wisdom gained."


"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."


"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."


"Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology."


"Observing and commenting, it is a piece of cake.Experiencing and sharing, that is a piece of work."


"It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests."


"You can teach a person all you know, but only experience will convince him that what you say is true."


"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience."


"I've admired a lot of people in my life time and some of them were actually alive."


"No matter how loud the sirens or how numerous the hazard signs, we all touch the flames at least once to prove they're hot."


"Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing."


"To 'live' is to realize that without the journey the destination is nothing more than a task rigorously completed rather than an experience riotously lived."


"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."


"Vanya soon found that America might be an exciting place to arrive, but living there could become, in time, as boring as anything else."


"It is an exciting adventure, doing what you love."


"Religion is an experience, not a bunch of doctrines."


"Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again."


"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."
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