Quotes about Experience

“I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.”

“Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.”

“Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.”

“The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.”

“The profoundly 'atomic' character of the universe is visible in everyday experience, in raindrops and grains of sand, in the hosts of the living, and the multitude of stars; even in the ashes of the dead.”

“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”

“'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.”

“When my father died, I had a real experience with Christ, a real conversion with Christ and I had it in a Oneness church.”

“I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.”

“There is an increasing demand that the president and Secretary Hull get rid of the unteachable group in the State Department of men who have not learned, after ten years of experience, that appeasement has never worked anywhere, at any time.”

“The world is given to me only once, not one existing and one perceived. Subject and object are only one. The barrier between them cannot be said to have broken down as a result of recent experience in the physical sciences, for this barrier does not exist.”

“The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.”

“You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it's important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.”

“Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.”

“I have had a lot of experience in broadcasting.”

“Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.”

“Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.”

“I love 'Exit West' by Mohsin Hamid. It's a magical realism retelling of the refugee experience, where people find these magical doors that transport them to another country.”

“Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.”

“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”

“Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible.”