Famous Quotes
- The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
- Isadora Duncan on Experience
- The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
- M. Scott Peck on Experience
- The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
- Robertson Davies on Experience
- The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
- George Santayana on Experience
- The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
- David Herbert Lawrence on Experience
- The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
- Elizabeth Hardwick on Experience
- The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
- Moses Hadas on Experience
- The greatest way for people to experience a comedy is to go in not knowing anything about it. But because of marketing, it's impossible. Marketing meaning that in order to get people to come you can't just go, 'Hey, there's a great movie - we're not going to show you anything from it but trust us!'
- Paul Feig on Experience
- The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
- E. M. Forster on Experience
- The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.
- Pope John Paul II on Experience
- The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
- Eliza Farnham on Experience
- The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Experience
- The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
- Richard Wright on Experience
- The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
- Aleister Crowley on Experience
- The key to education is the experience of beauty.
- Friedrich Schiller on Experience
- The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
- John Frusciante on Experience
- The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
- Helen Keller on Experience
- The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so.
- Henri Poincare on Experience
- 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.
- John Le Carre on Experience
- 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 on Experience
- The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
- Haile Gebrselassie on Experience
- The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein on Experience
- The most experience I had in the criminology field is playing a thug as an actor. That was my first paid job. The police academy at the college was paying people to reenact the calls that potential cops would get. So I got to play thugs and people who were unruly.
- Jeremy Renner on Experience
- The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
- Daniel J. Boorstin on Experience
- The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come if you don't, there's no hope for you.
- Orson Scott Card on Experience
- 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.
- Margaret J. Wheatley on Experience
- The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'
- Neale Donald Walsch on Experience
- The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.
- James Russell Lowell on Experience
- The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
- Henry Ford on Experience
- The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
- Milton Friedman on Experience
- The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein on Experience
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
- Chinua Achebe on Experience
- The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
- Gloria Swanson on Experience
- The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
- Deepak Chopra on Experience
- The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.
- Ernst Mach on Experience
- The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
- Martha Beck on Experience
- The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.
- Muhammad Iqbal on Experience
- The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
- Christa McAuliffe on Experience
- The printed page conveys information and commitment, and requires active involvement. Television conveys emotion and experience, and it's very limited in what it can do logically. It's an existential experience - there and then gone.
- Bill Moyers on Experience
- The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes.
- Arthur Miller on Experience
- The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.
- James A. Baldwin on Experience
- The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
- Ninon De L'Enclos on Experience
- The reward of suffering is experience.
- Harry S. Truman on Experience
- The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
- Lord Acton on Experience
- The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.
- Simon Mainwaring on Experience
- The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.
- Frank McCourt on Experience
- The sole substitute for an experience which we have not ourselves lived through is art and literature.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn on Experience
- The soul is everlasting, and its learning experience is lifetime after lifetime.
- Shirley MacLaine on Experience
- The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
- Emily Dickinson on Experience
- The spectacles of experience through them you will see clearly a second time.
- Henrik Ibsen on Experience
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