Of Experience Quotes

#1. Philosophy can forsake too easily the details of experience ... many writers and painters have demonstrated that thinking long about what art is or ought to be ruins the power to write or paint.

Robert Adams

#2. I'm the oldest 26-year-old I know. A lot of experience has been crammed into a short amount of time. Some days I feel a good 65, 70. Like I want to lie down.

Yancy Butler

#3. By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists:;? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.

Felix Adler

#4. You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was that long-term memory alters the expression of genes in nerve cells, which is the cause of the growth of new synaptic connections.

Eric Kandel

#5. Men who have had a great deal of experience learn not to lose their temper.

Victor Cherbuliez

#6. When you're doing collaborative music, the relationship that forms is a very bonding kind of experience.

Condoleezza Rice

#7. The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

Peter Ackroyd

#8. You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is ... unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.

Alice Neel

#9. The fragile nature of youth is at last hardened by the agony of experience.

Joel T. McGrath

#10. I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.

Salvador Allende

#11. To gain control over the quality of experience, one needs to learn how to build enjoyment into what happens day in, day out.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#12. The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual ...

Carl Jung

#13. If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

Wilhelm Dilthey

#14. Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

Helen Keller

#15. Nobody evers seems to realize that a statistic is just a coincidence that has had a lot of experience.

S.L. Varnado

#16. How hard it is to see things in life with a child's "eyes of newness" once we have an adult's "eyes of experience".

BigDaddy Abel

#17. To the extent that experience is the sum of our memories and wisdom the sum of experience, having a better memory would mean knowing not only more about the world, but also more about myself.

Joshua Foer

#18. Reactions still sharp from years of experience, Han fired, sending the trooper to the ground.

Alan Dean Foster

#19. This divergence of experience was not a stumbling block to conversation; indeed, it was what made the conversation interesting.

Michael David Lukas

#20. All of us fractured, awkward collages of experience wrapped tight to present a defensible face to the world.

Mark Lawrence

#21. I haven't had a lot of experience with glamour. I've never had to mask myself, as many now not-so-young actresses have had to do. Female actors in that regard have a different lot in life than male actors.

Melissa Leo

#22. It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.

Serena Williams

#23. The compensation of growing old ... was simply this; that the passions remain as strong as ever, but one has gained - at last! - the power which adds the supreme flavor to existence, - the power of taking hold of experience, of turning it round, slowly, in the light.

Virginia Woolf

#24. We find out soon enough that the universe is not capricious: the child who learns that fire burns and knife-edges cut know that there are inexorable limits set upon his desires. Language must conform to the discovered regularities and irregularities of experience.

Max Black

#25. No matter what genre of music you play when you rack up a couple years of experience, you have your own point of view no matter who it is that is coming in front of you whether it's a pop artist or a country artist. Whoever.

Harry Connick Jr.

#26. What is written is merely the dregs of experience.

Franz Kafka

#27. I know that as a writer I'm trying to, in some small way, return the gift that I got, and maybe provide a reader the kind of experience that has changed my life.

Gregory Allen Howard

#28. Literature begins with the possible model of experience, and what it produces is the literary model we call the classic.

Northrop Frye

#29. I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#30. I'd like to believe an accumulation of experience has made me a sort of a grown-up person, so I can have judgment and taste and whatever.

Maurice Sendak

#31. The advice I have for beginners is the same philosophy that I have for runners of all levels of experience and ability
consistency, a sane approach, moderation and making your running an enjoyable, rather than dreaded, part of your life.

Bill Rodgers

#32. For what is philosophy but an art - one more attempt to give "significant form" to the chaos of experience?

Will Durant

#33. Habit is far stronger than the lessons of experience.

Helen McCloy

#34. Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

George Sand

#35. History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

Edward Gibbon

#36. Wisdom comes from the internalization and reflection of experience.

Debasish Mridha

#37. Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

Eric Stoltz

#38. There's a depth of meaning all on its own in awareness being gentled. From within the subtlety of being gentled, the level of perception changes. Instead of perceiving the obviousness of experience, you're able as awareness to perceive most subtle meaning.

John De Ruiter

#39. With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

John Stuart Mill

#40. In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience.

Mahatma Gandhi

#41. Yoga does not remove us from the reality or responsibilities of everyday life but rather places our feet firmly and resolutely in the practical ground of experience. We don't transcend our lives; we return to the life we left behind in the hopes of something better.

Donna Farhi

#42. Poetry is concerned not just with the meaning of experience, but with the experience of meaning.

Terry Eagleton

#43. Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the exuberance of experience, the strange and terribly subtle final aims of my Asiatic Blood that remain a mystery to you.

Paul Meyer

#44. Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

Seth Godin

#45. Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

Michael Oakeshott

#46. I had had a lot of experience in bringing the Internet to Australia, and I saw that knowledge in the hands of people achieves reform.

Julian Assange

#47. The messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#48. I think intellectualizing annoys me because it is the enemy of experience; you cannot experience the presence of God and analyze it at the same time. You can't analyze anything and experience it simultaneously.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#49. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience.

George Eliot

#50. God is rich in mercy. I know this wealth of His with the certainty of experience. I have touched it.

Simone Weil

#51. You can't go to the pharmacy to buy a pack of experience, you have to be in those games in order to acquire that experience.

Bob Hartley

#52. As with real reading, the ability to comprehend subtlety and complexity comes only with time and a lot of experience. If you don't adequately acquire those skills, moving out into the real world of real people can actually become quite scary.

Jeffrey Kluger

#53. No one cares about the artist Kafka, who troubles us with his puzzling aesthetic, because we'd rather have Kafka as the fusion of experience and work, the Kafka who had a difficult relationship with his father and didn't know how to deal with women.

Milan Kundera

#54. A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better.

Jayleigh Cape

#55. I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

Catherynne M Valente

#56. Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

Ronald Reagan

#57. Intensity of experience is what we're looking for, I think. We know we won't find it at home any more, but there's always the hope that we'll find it abroad

David Lodge

#58. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.

Stephen R. Covey

#59. I worked a lot in Chicago's theater scene as a fight choreographer. And so I do have a lot of experience in stage combat and also in Kabuki dance and Kabuki theater.

Nick Offerman

#60. The splendors of earth do not simply lie in their roles as human resources, supports of culture, or stimulators of experience.

Holmes Rolston III

#61. People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We know that experience is great, but it's not enough.

Frederick Lenz

#62. All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#63. Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

Pam Grier

#64. Sharpen your mind with the beauty of knowledge and the tears of experience to be wise.

Debasish Mridha

#65. Every skillful writer foregrounds notable aspects of experience, details that might otherwise be lost in the mass of data that continuously bathes our senses - and in so doing prompts us to find and savour those in the world around us.

Alain De Botton

#66. I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want ... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.

Don McCullin

#67. It is greatest to believe and to hope well of the world, because he who does so, quits the world of experience, and makes the world he lives in.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#68. As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

Juliet Aubrey

#69. Nature provides a first draft, which experience then revises. ... "Built-in" does not mean unmalleable; it means "organized in advance of experience."3

Jonathan Haidt

#70. An artist doesn't really need a great deal of experience. One heartbreak can produce many novels. But you have to have a heart that can break.

Brian Morton

#71. it was thus that she felt herself; and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures. When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless. And to everybody there was always this sense of unlimited resources, she supposed; one after another,

Virginia Woolf

#72. It's hard to see potential in a rough cut - especially with comedy, which is hit or miss. This is where my lack of experience hurt me - not in the execution of the final product, but with my expectations for it in the early stages of post.

Desiree Akhavan

#73. Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.

Peter Drucker

#74. But if you just got your first car and you're feeling around for the seat lever and find "Desolation Angels" instead, the beautiful people on the cover so lazily entwined, well, that's the type of experience that can turn your head around.

Tupelo Hassman

#75. Experience is only half of experience.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#76. Black and white can show how something is. Color adds how it is, imbued with temperatures and humidities of experience.

Peter Schjeldahl

#77. Harsh lights and narrow hallways, images which did not seem so much theatrical or foreign as imbued with the indelible quality of memory, of experience lived.

Donna Tartt

#78. Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Jack Kingston

#79. Iranians hate Arabs. They're a fairly well-educated population and they have centuries of experience with self-government.

Michael Ledeen

#80. Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

Ron Carlson

#81. Life off Earth is in two important respects not at all unworldly: you can choose to focus on the surprises and pleasures, or the frustrations. And you can choose to appreciate the smallest scraps of experience, the everyday moments, or to value only the grandest, most stirring ones.

Chris Hadfield

#82. The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.

Mark Twain

#83. There is beauty in living in a small space, as a child. Some aspects of it are so beautiful, and it's so nice to not see the darkness. But then, in other ways, there's a whole range of experience that's being missed because of it.

Brie Larson

#84. I don't think that experience is a very useful or convincing attribute for a sensible foreign policy. Henry Kissinger had a lot of experience.

Noam Chomsky

#85. Life should never happen to you, but you should hold the power over life, with what kind of experience you wish to have, without any internal and external pressure.

Roshan Sharma

#86. I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years.

John Green

#87. We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience.

Abraham Lincoln

#88. When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

Douglas Adams

#89. It was a symbol of what Ruskin had done for Proust, and what all books might do for their readers, namely bring back to life, from the deadness caused by habit and inattention, valuable yet neglected aspects of experience.

Alain De Botton

#90. When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless ... Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by. Her horizon seemed to her limitless.

Virginia Woolf

#91. If real experience has triggered your descent into depression, you have a human yen to understand it even when you have ceased to experience it; the limited of experience that is achieved with chemical pills is not tantamount to a cure.

Andrew Solomon

#92. of experience at the Privy Council Office who was hired to be an editor of the French translation but ended up being a primary editor of the entire report. I headed

Kevin Page

#93. What makes people is not bone structure and eye color, but the force of their personalities. the years of experience painted on their faces.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#94. I'm young and I have a lot of experience and I learn quickly.

Christian Siriano

#95. Strangest thing is, you learn the value of experience only with experience

Ranvir Shorey

#96. We focus a lot on the quality of experience, speed, reliability. It's not sexy from a lot of people's perspective, it's not glitzy in the feature set, but it's what people come to rely on.

Jan Koum

#97. Bringing the essence of life in form of experience is the most crucial element in the development of human mind.

Maitreya Rudrabhayananda

#98. Every lawyer of experience comes to know (more or less unconsciously) that in the great majority of cases, the precedents are none too good as bases of prediction. Somehow or other, there are plenty of precedents to go around.

Jerome Frank

#99. He who neglects to drink of the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

Li Bai

#100. The French are true romantics. They feel the only difference between a man of forty and one of seventy is thirty years of experience.

Maurice Chevalier