In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Neither Peter in his work to include Gentiles in the church nor the abolitionists in their campaign against slavery argued that their experience should take precedence over Scripture. But they both made the case that their experience should cause Christians to reconsider long-held interpretations of Scripture. Today, we are still responsible for testing our beliefs in light of their outcomes—a duty in line with Jesus's teaching about trees and their fruit.
~ Matthew Vines
The world is full of alluring, flashy and thrilling experiences, which are illusionary traps — they are paths to nowhere.
~ Bryant Mcgill
The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in other volumes. It's the product of the temperament I've been blessed or cursed with - I'm not sure which. All I know is that the author of these lines (I'm not sure if also of these books) has never had just one personality, and has never thought or felt except dramatically - that is, through invented persons, or personalities, who are more capable than he of feeling what's to be felt.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The potential of your life experience shrinks or expands according to your ability to love.
Experience is based on knowledge, not by years
~ Sanjeev Beekeeper
Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities.
Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed
~ Michael Thomas Ford
Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It's expensive and hard to come by. Though it is the heir of disappointment, betrayal and frustration, it is not the inheritance that matters but what you do with it. No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen.
~ Billy Marshall Stoneking
The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
~ Chris Prentiss
Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.
~ Guillermo Del Toro
You have to surrender yourself to the experience.
~ Thomm Quackenbush
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
~ Diane Keaton
There is a charm in saying nothing, in saying nothing at all. There is a charm in - experiencing.
~ Peter Cave
Your purpose on earth is to participate in this human experience and to seize the opportunity within each day to reveal the greatest version of yourself.
~ Steve Maraboli
If not to shape me into a better man; a better husband, a better father, a better son, a better brother, a better friend… then all of my experience, success, and education will have been a selfish waste.
I thought, you see, that there must be some connection between money and memorable experience; between rare wine and rare intelligence. In short, I was a romantic idiot.
~ Jincy Willett
Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.
Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It's why I prefer solitude to social interaction. - Bethany
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Even without a kiss, this moment is perfect, and you wouldn't trade it for anything.
~ Jill Santopolo
Well,' said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return once more to London, 'it has been a pretty business for me! I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained?''Experience,' said Holmes, laughing. 'Indirectly it may be of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.
~ Idries Shah
Oh, Youth may listen patiently,While sad Experience tells her tale,But Doubt sits smiling in his eye,For ardent Hope will still prevail!He hears how feeble Pleasure dies,By guilt destroyed, and pain and woe;He turns to Hope—and she replies,“Believe it not-it is not so!
~ Anne Brontë
Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.
You cannot have qualifications without experience, and you cannot have experience without personal interest and bias. That may not be an ideal arrangement, but it is the way the world is built and we must make the best of it. p 242
~ George Bernard Shaw
Strive to follow your big dreams. If you fail, cherish the valuable experience gained during the process. There’s always a second time.
~ Yatin Patel
Thoughts of harmony allow experiences of harmony.
~ Vironika Tugaleva
Be good. It'll be a new experience.
~ Susan Andersen
Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.
~ Ronald Frame
Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!
~ Marjane Satrapi
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
The more mistakes I make, the less I judge other people's mistakes
~ Bayan Bahi
Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only he who has eatenpoppies with the deadwill not lose ever againthe gentlest chord.Though the image upon the pooloften grows dim:Know and be still.Inside the Double Worldall voices becomeeternally mild.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom
~ Radhanath Swami
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
~ English Proverb
...on opening the incubator I experienced one of those rare moments of intense emotion which reward the research worker for all his pains: at first glance I saw that the broth culture, which the night before had been very turbid was perfectly clear: all the bacteria had vanished... as for my agar spread it was devoid of all growth and what caused my emotion was that in a flash I understood: what causes my spots was in fact an invisible microbe, a filterable virus, but a virus parasitic on bacteria. Another thought came to me also, If this is true, the same thing will have probably occurred in the sick man. In his intestine, as in my test-tube, the dysentery bacilli will have dissolved away under the action of their parasite. He should now be cured.
~ Félix D'herelle
Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.
~ J. Aleksandr Wootton
Imagine a skilled botanist accompanied by someone like myself who is largely ignorant of botany taking part in a field trip into the Australian bush, with the objective of collecting observable facts about the native flora. It is undoubtedly the case that the botanist will be capable of collecting facts that are far more numerous and discerning than those I am able to observe and formulate, and the reason is clear. The botanist has a more elaborate conceptual scheme to exploit than myself, and that is because he or she knows more botany than I do. A knowledge of botany is a prerequisite for the formulation of the observation statements that might constitute its factual basis. Thus, the recording of observable facts requires more than the reception of the stimuli, in the form of light rays, that impinge on the eye. It requires the knowledge of the appropriate conceptual scheme and how to apply it.
~ Alan F. Chalmers
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience, unless they are still up.
~ Ellen Goodman
