Experience Quotes - page 3

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)
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. View quote
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
Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience. View quote
Elizabeth Bowen
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. (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. View quote
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. (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
Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. View quote
Anthony Robbins
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. View quote
Helen Keller
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