Experience Quotes

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.
– Neale Donald Walsch
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
– Jonathan Kozol
A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.
– George Mason
A commitment to human rights cannot be fostered simply through the transmission of knowledge. Action and experience play a crucial role in the learning process.
– Daisaku Ikeda
'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.
– William James
'Donny and Marie' was a great experience. I tried so hard to be a great talk show host but it's all about relaxing and enjoying it. Marie and I finally figured that out. I would have liked it to continue but I'm kind of glad it's over because of the phenomenal workload.
– Donny Osmond
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
– Ansel Adams
There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
– Ansel Adams
I had a wonderful experience on the golf course today. I had a hole in nothing. Missed the ball and sank the divot.
– Don Adams
I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.
– Daniel Akaka
This was Shakespeare's form; who walked in every path of human life, felt every passion; and to all mankind doth now, will ever, that experience yield which his own genius only could acquire.
– Mark Akenside
Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
– William Alexander
It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
– Woody Allen
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.
– Woody Allen
Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to.
– Greg Anderson
Art is an experience, not the formulation of a problem.
– Lindsay Anderson
In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
– Barbara de Angelis
The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
– Barbara de Angelis
When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
– Barbara de Angelis
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
– Minna Antrim
If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.
– Saint Thomas Aquinas
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how many occasions they have genuinely and profoundly shared some experience with another.
– W. H. Auden
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
– Saint Teresa of Avila
People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
– Trace Adkins
Being awarded the Caldecott is an experience to which one cannot become jaded. I am certain of this and stand ready to endure any effort to prove otherwise.
– Charles Van Allsburg
With his ABC News experience, perhaps Pierre Salinger's next job could be cohosting-with Oliver Stone-a 24-hour Conspiracy Network.
– Jonathan Alter
I have been subject to politics as long as I've been alive, thirty-five years, starting with the New Deal, going into the Second World War, the Cold War, Korea, the whole thing. So, I've been affected by it and hence since I've made my art, my art must reflect my political experience.
– Carl Andre
He was comforted by one of the simpler emotions which some human beings are lucky enough to experience. He knew when he died he would be watched by someone he loved.
– Noel Annan
Performing is the most important single action in my life. It is a unique experience of hard work-elation and disappointment. Every move is an experiment in building up a successful repertoire.
– Adam Ant
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
– Sir Francis Bacon
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
– Sir Francis Bacon
Fact is not to be worshipped. The life which is devoid of imagination is dead; it is tied to the earth. There need be no divorce of fact and fancy; they are only the poles of experience. What is called the scientific method is only imagination set within bounds. Facts are bridged by imagination. They are tied together by the thread of speculation. The very essence of science is to reason from the known to the unknown.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
It is a marvelous planet on which we ride. It is a great privilege to live thereon, to partake in the journey, and to experience its goodness. We may cooperate rather than rebel. We should try to find the meanings rather than to be satisfied only with the spectacles. My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams.
– Liberty Hyde Bailey
I'm obsessive about the kind of melodrama of getting through the days and trying to make them good and funny and a happy experience. But my feeling towards the fans is that they delivered me from darkness.
– Tom Baker
I want her to play whatever role she's willing to play. I think she has described a range of possibilities, but her experience and her abilities and her talents are so broad that I would predict that there are other opportunities that will present themselves. And she will discover them. But she is a remarkable woman. And she was a remarkable Senator and she will be remarkable here on post in Japan.
– Howard Baker
A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision; but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.
– Stanley Baldwin
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
– Hosea Ballou
I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have. . . . In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.
– Bob Barker
Speaking of music: We also had our consciousness raised several feet by the experience of attending the classic '60's rock concert... where everybody would sit around marinating in an atmosphere that was 1 part oxygen, 4 parts nitrogen and 17 parts doobie vapor.
– Dave Barry
Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
– Jacques Barzun
Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
– James Beard
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
– Arnold Bennett
It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.
– Bo Bennett
But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.
– Robert Bennett
Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
– Milton Berle
The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.
– Silvio Berlusconi
Bill Dickey is learning me his experience.
– Yogi Berra
I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have.
– Rudolf Bing
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
– William Blake
Parochialism is one of the CIA's biggest problems. These career CIA officers, while having valuable experience, also carry the baggage of being resistant to change. The status quo may be comfortable to them, but it is dangerous to the country.
– Christopher Bond
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes sight-seeing.
– Daniel J. Boorstin
The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.
– Ray Bradbury
The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.
– Bill Bradley
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.
– Louis D. Brandeis
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.
– Rita Mae Brown
Europe, you know, every few feet there is some extraordinary visual or cultural experience. My mentor, Francis Taylor, said, You've got to go to Europe and wash your eyeballs in the stuff. And it's true.
– J. Carter Brown
No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
– J. Carter Brown
Going to another country you're not in your house, you're with people you've never met before, and I think it's definitely a good growing experience.
– Amanda Bynes
I have always laid it down as a maxim -and found it justified by experience -that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex -but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
– Lord Byron
The strongest arguments prove nothing so long as the conclusions are not verified by experience. Experimental science is the queen of sciences and the goal of all speculation.
– Roger Bacon
Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
– Jan Peter Balkenende
The Psalms are selected by the Christian from the whole Bible, as they were by the Jew from the books in his possession - the Old Testament ... nor will there ever be in the world such an advance in religious light, experience, and knowledge, that they will lose their relative place as connected with the exercises of practical piety.
– Albert Barnes
The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.
– Tom Barrett
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
– Orlando A. Battista
When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
– Daniel Bell
There's no fool like an old fool - you can't beat experience.
– Jacob Braude
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.
– Fred Brooks, Jr.
My experience suggests that intimacy has two main components: RISK and COMMITMENT... Risk and commitment both require decisions.
– Victor L. Brown, Jr.
You can't get a job without experience and you can't get experience until you have a job. Once you solve that problem you are home free.
– Jack Buck
Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
– Frederick Buechner
Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.
– Charles Buxton
Life is a creative endeavor. It is active, not passive. We are the yeast that leavens our lives into rich, fully baked loaves. When we experience our lives as flat and lackluster, it is our consciousness that is at fault. We hold the inner key that turns our lives from thankless to fruitful. That key is Blessing.
– Julia Cameron
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
– Joseph Campbell
I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
– Joseph Campbell
What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.
– Joseph Campbell
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.
– Albert Camus
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
– Vincent Canby
I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
– Harry Caray
A lot of the characters I play come from the working-class. It's a background I'm familiar with. It's not about being hard. It's just knowing how that society works and what the rules are.I grew up in a working-class area of Glasgow and that experience has stood me in good stead.
– Robert Carlyle
I'll spare you the actors' pretentious rubbish, but a face reflects experience, so if you concentrate on a character something happens to you physically. Many actors look at the costume before the part, and that seems crazy to me. It's much more fun to be ugly. Not that I think I'm ugly, but I've never considered myself good-looking.
– Robert Carlyle
To be honest I've worked with a few American actors now and I was looking forward to that you know, coming up in my career thinking Yeah I'd like to work with some Americans because they seem to be very, very comfortable with improvisation. But that has not been my experience at all. They have to have things absolutely set.
– Robert Carlyle
I believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master in that line. I have no faith in the policy of scattering one's resources, and in my experience I have rarely if ever met a man who achieved preeminence in money making... certainly never one in manufacturing... who was interested in many concerns.
– Andrew Carnegie
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.
– Angela Carter
The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
– Angela Carter
A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
– Joyce Cary
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.
– Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
– Lord Chesterfield
A blind person using a screen reader must experience the links one after another, which is rather inconvenient. They've got better things to do.
– Joe Clark
Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience.
– Chuck Close
Vermeer was painting light. And so when you walk into a room where the other Dutch painters are, his paintings just sing. And they're an entirely different experience. And I'm sure it's because he was using a camera obscura and he was in fact looking at light while he was painting rather than looking at stuff.
– Chuck Close
Taking the time to read to children is not only a worthwhile investment but also a wonderful experience. I have visited 119 schools in Maine, and these visits are among the most rewarding experiences in my career in public service.
– Susan Collins
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
– Calvin Coolidge
I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.
– Chris Cooper
I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.'
– John Cornyn
To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures. Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
– Harry Callahan
When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.
– Neve Campbell
Many of our nation's great leaders began their careers at a service academy. I encourage anyone interested in a rewarding college experience or military career to apply as soon as possible.
– Chris Cannon
I can't say enough about how I'm against drugs. Be smart, think about it, look at what it does to people, look at how much you have to experience in life and be courageous enough to do everything you want to without that chemical help.
– Erika Christensen
I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
– Perry Christie
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire.
– Kenneth Clark