Top 100 Experience Quotes of All Time

A short, finished list rather than an endless feed: 100 of the best experience quotes ever written, picked out of the full experience archive on QuoteForever. You will find Henry David Thoreau, Michael Tilson Thomas, Margaret J. Wheatley and Mary Baker Eddy among them.

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Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

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That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

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But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

4

Experience teaches only the teachable.

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Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

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The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.

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Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.

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For perfect love casteth out fear, and fear can only be from the material things that soon must fade away. And thus hold to the higher thought of eternity. For life is a continual experience.

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A serious life, by definition, is a life one reflects on, a life one tries to make sense of and bear witness to. Truth in a memoir is achieved not through a recital of actual events; it is achieved when the reader comes to believe that the writer is working hard to engage with the experience at hand. What happened to the writer is not what matters; what matters is the large sense that the writer is able to make of what happened.

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Nothing can happen, nothing can occur in your life which is not a precisely perfect opportunity for you to heal something, create something, or experience something that you wish to heal, create, or experience in order to be who you really are.

11

There is a total incompatibility between the joy of reading, a vagabond experience, and the experience of reading in order to answer questions, and explain what you understood.

12

All conflict we experience in the world, is a conflict within our own selves.

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But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

14

I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate.

15

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

16

Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment uncertain, and judgment difficult.

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On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

18

But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn.

19

Age is nothing but experience, and some of us are more experienced than others

20

Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.

21

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.

22

When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.

23

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

24

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into words. Certainly it's not something that you're in charge of, necessarily, but writing about it, putting it into your words, can be a very powerful experience.

25

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

26

There's simply no substitute for experience in terms of aviation safety.

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Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.

28

Negative thinking patterns can be immensely deceptive and persuasive, and change is rarely easy. But with patience and persistence, I believe that nearly all individuals suffering from depression can improve and experience a sense of joy and self-esteem once again.

29

Even after the observation of the frequent conjunction of objects, we have no reason to draw any inference concerning any object beyond those of which we have had experience.

30

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.

31

The need for a permanent status resolution approved by Congress is made even more clear to me because of my experience as a former Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations.

32

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

33

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

34

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

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the writer is initially set going by literature more than by life.

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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

37

We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices.

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Transcendence: that which transcends experience.

39

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

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History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion.

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We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.

42

In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.

43

It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.

44

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences.

45

I don't think people should have boundaries put on them, by themselves or society or another gender, because it's our birthright to experience life in whatever way we feel best suits us.

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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.

47

A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.

48

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

49

I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed.

50

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

51

I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain.

52

I have this horrible sense of humor where I think discomfort is funny - partly because I experience discomfort a lot, and it's a way of laughing at it and getting a release.

53

The belief that all genuine education comes about through experience does not mean that all experiences are genuinely or equally educative.

54

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

55

Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.

56

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

57

I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

58

If I do a scene with an actor who doesn't have much experience, I say, 'I tell you what we're going to do: You just listen to me, and then you respond. We don't have to do any acting.' And that's good advice because you shouldn't see the acting.

59

I don't have to have faith, I have experience.

60

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

61

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life.

62

You're not just this person who's from your own specific experiences, but the collective experience of what makes you who you are because of time.

63

One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to it. This uncontrived state is prior to effort, prior to grasping, prior to avoiding. It is the real world before you do anything to it, including the effort to "see it nondually".

64

It's a great, great experience to finally get the reception that you know you rightfully deserve.

65

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

66

In such an environment, I was able to study things that could be of immediate usefulness to the world. That learning experience undoubtedly served me well when I eventually entered the work force.

67

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

68

Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.

69

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

70

If we shake hands with icy fingers, it is because we have burnt them so horribly before.

71

If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

72

The nature of the global business environment guarantees that no matter how hard we work to create a stable and healthy organisation, our organisation will continue to experience dramatic changes far beyond our control.

73

We experience problem-solving sessions as war zones, we view competing ideas as enemies, and we use problems as weapons to blame and defeat opposition forces. No wonder we can't come up with real lasting solutions!

74

I had years of experience that I still needed to accumulate and go through.

75

All around me insisted that my doubts proved only my own ignorance and sinfulness; that they knew by experience they would soon give place to true knowledge, and an advance in religion; and I felt something like indecision.

76

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

77

If people are given the chance to experience life in more than one country, they will hate a little less. It's not a miracle potion, but little by little you can solve problems in the basement of a country, not on the surface.

78

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

79

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

80

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

81

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

82

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

83

One has to go beyond the mind to experience the spiritual bliss of desirelessness.

84

You experience other cultures to give you a kind of shock that makes you look at your own culture. You appreciate it more as a result of being out of it, but you also realise there are some things lacking in your culture.

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But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.

86

To represent your country is an honor and a great experience.

87

It's a bit ridiculous to have people who have two years of experience handling an $83 billion budget.

88

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

89

I have been attacked by Rush Limbaugh on the air, an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn't actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.

90

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

91

If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.

92

In my experience, poor people are the world's greatest entrepreneurs. Every day, they must innovate in order to survive. They remain poor because they do not have the opportunities to turn their creativity into sustainable income.

93

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

94

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

95

Brooklyn is not the easiest place to grow up in, although I wouldn't change that experience for anything.

96

Life experience is what defines our character, even if it means getting your heart broken or being lied to. You know, you need the downs to appreciate the ups. Going on the adventure or taking that risk is important.

97

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

98

Life, not the parson, teaches conduct.

99

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

100

A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.

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