Experience Quotes

He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure and vague . . . He saw what looked like the truth as by flashes of lightening on a dark, stormy night you might see a mountain range. He seemed to see that a man need not leave his life to chance, but that his will was powerful; he seemed to see that self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion; he seemed to see that the inward life might be as manifold, as varied, as rich with experience, as the life of one who conquered realms and explored unknown lands.

~ W. Somerset Maugham

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that: A quiet conscience mades one strong!

~ Anne Frank

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

~ Lolly Daskal

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

~ Mitch Albom

If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it.

~ Toba Beta

Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences.

~ Criss Jami

True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch.

~ Tiffany Madison

God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.

~ Aldous Huxley

Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience.

~ C.s. Lewis

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

~ Criss Jami

In that moment, I understand the way that the noblest yearning for duty and sacrifice can be mixed up with all that is savage and shameful, like in the Bible, where a just and merciful God tells you to kill everyone, kill the children, kill the livestock, kill John Polling, leave nothing alive to sully this pure and just world. Except when it's all done you find out that wasn't really God after all, just some politician, or maybe it was God, but he taps you on the shoulder and says, 'No, dude, that isn't what I meant,' and leaves you sitting in a Dairy Queen in Bothell with blood on your hands and no further orders...

~ Stuart Archer Cohen

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

~ Truman Capote

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

~ Thomas Paine

We learn from failure, not from success!

~ Bram Stoker

All knowledge hurts.

~ Cassandra Clare

In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn.

~ Octavia E. Butler

Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two.

~ Lynsay Sands

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

~ John Dewey

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

~ Kay Redfield Jamison

...unfortunately, it's true: time does heal. It will do so whether you like it or not, and there's nothing anyone can do about it. If you're not careful, time will take away everything that ever hurt you, everything you have ever lost, and replace it with knowledge. Time is a machine: it will convert your pain into experience. Raw data will be compiled, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorized, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.

~ Charles Yu

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

~ Vera Nazarian

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

~ Aeschylus

We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

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

Wisdom is when you understand what, previously, at best you only knew.

~ Idries Shah

Experience is never at bargain price.

~ Alice B. Toklas

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

~ Joseph Conrad

From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom.

~ T.f. Hodge

I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works.

~ Criss Jami

Knowledge is knowing the depth of the ocean. Wisdom is knowing till where to swim.

~ Saleem Sharma

Travel Moulds A Man,People Mould His Wisdom And Experiences Mould His LIFE...!

~ Sujit Lalwani

To get a true education, going to school is not enough. School helps students gain knowledge; however, true education is in gaining wisdom, which can only be earned with experience.

~ Charbel Tadros

When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.

~ Anthony Horowitz

You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not.

~ James Rozoff

I embrace my experience and value my wisdom.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Whatever you experience is what you must feel.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita