Experience Quotes - page 3

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor. (Thomas Jefferson)
Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. View quote
Richard Owen
Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it. View quote
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. View quote
Henry James
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. View quote
Aleister Crowley
All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move. View quote
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. View quote
Ursula K. Le Guin
All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. View quote
Elie Wiesel
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against. (Vanessa L. Williams)
Every grain of experience is food for the greedy growing soul of the artist. View quote
Anthony Burgess
Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life. View quote
Anaïs Nin
I received from my experience in Japan an incredible sense of respect for the art of creating, not just the creative product. We're all about the product. To me, the process was also an incredibly important aspect of the total form. View quote
Julie Taymor
Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best. View quote
Woody Allen
Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. View quote
Margaret Fuller
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. View quote
Edith Wharton
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning. View quote
Fred Perry
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. View quote
Bill Watterson
God is only a great imaginative experience. (D. H. Lawrence)
Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end. View quote
Walter Pater
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god. View quote
Alan Watts
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. View quote
Calvin Coolidge
The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. View quote
Václav Havel
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