Experience Quotes

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

~ Rudolf Carnap

We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs.

~ Eric Samuel Timm

Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?

~ Julian Fellowes

The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to facts as they occur, but with the eye of reason and experience.

~ William Herschel

We experience the gods and the wisdom of the universe all in our own way

~ Skadi Winter

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

~ George Henry Lewes

When I feel broken, I cry like the monsoons; and when I glue the pieces back together, I swell and surge like the sea. And then I gradually become tranquil, peaceful, calm...

~ Subarna Prasad Acharya

I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

~ Felix Bloch

As chemists, we must rename [our] scheme and insert the symbols Ba, La, Ce in place of Ra, Ac, Th. As nuclear chemists closely associated with physics, we cannot yet convince ourselves to make this leap, which contradicts all previous experience in nuclear physics.

~ Otto Hahn

Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.

~ Jim Blasingame

Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost... It is what you live in.

~ James Glieck

The years of his life had not been gentle, and there was something untamable about him; his eyes seemed to say everything and nothing at all, almost as if they spoke a dying language few could appreciate or even understand.

~ Chris Nicolaisen

Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.

~ A.s.a. Harrison

Peace is the way, not the destination.

~ Shannon L. Alder

We Were young. He didn't love me. He just thought he did. Simple as that.- Blaire Lynn

~ Abbi Glines

Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.

~ Madalyn Murray O'hair

We define love the way we experienced it.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has cultivated and supported a generous, subversive, and unique culture of vivid beauty. From jazz, blues, and and hip-hop to secondlines, Mardi Gras Indians, jazz funerals, and the citywide tradition of red beans and rice on Monday nights, New Orleans is a place of art and music and food and traditions and sexuality and liberation.

~ Jordan Flaherty

Maturity comes with experience, not age.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is a major difference between a scuba diver and a drowning man. One is in control of his experiences, the other is in over his head.

~ Laren Grey Umphlett

When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but in middle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a belief in practical politics, to using the machinery one has and getting on with the world as it is. Thus, at least, venerable and philanthropic old men now in their honoured graves used to talk to me when I was a boy.But since then I have grown up and have discovered that these philanthropic old men were telling lies. What has really happened is exactly the opposite of what they said would happen. They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith in practical politics. I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election. As a babe I leapt up on my mother's knee at the mere mention of it. No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud. As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in Liberals.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine.

~ Idries Shah

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

~ Wallis Duchess Of Windsor

For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.

~ S.r. Ford

...you got tuh go there tuh know there.

~ Zora Neale Hurston

What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.

~ Sri Aurobindo

Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.

~ Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they would. They'll bargain and compromise in order to survive; they'll chase after miracle cures and believe just about anything so long as it gives them hope. When hope fails, then watch out. Some people get brutal. They'll turn on each other; they'll become their own worst enemies.

~ Ilsa J. Bick

every lord was a servant and every servant will be a lord.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

~ Oscar Wilde

... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...

~ John Le Carré

Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly, without first having to lose one’s life.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We have no reason to harbor any mistrust against our world, for it is not against us. If it has terrors, they are our terrors; if it has abysses, these abysses belong to us; if there are dangers, we must try to love them. And if only we arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our most intimate and trusted experience.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

When life sank down for a moment, the range of experience seemed limitless.

~ Virginia Woolf

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

In a number of workshops, I have asked people whether they have had one or more experiences that they would identify as an experience of God and, if so, to share them in small groups. On average, 80 percent of the participants identify one or more and are eager to talk about them. They also frequently report that they had never before been asked that question in a church setting or given an opportunity to talk about it.

~ Marcus J. Borg

She will prolong her life by the length of her story, even though time will wear on inexorably as she tells it, thus depriving her of the chance to have a new experience.

~ Elfriede Jelinek

The desolate narrowness, the definitive thinness of experience is both the vainglory and the dead giveaway of a provincial man.

~ Pat Conroy

Education is like a seed, that when watered with knowledge and experience, grows into true wisdom.

~ Richard S. Hartmetz