Experience Quotes - Page 4

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

T.S Eliot

Koschei the Deathless made a face as he tasted the wine. "It is far too sweet. Comrade Stalin fears bitterness and has the tastes of a spoiled princess. I savor bitterness--it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. You, too, must learn to prefer it. After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in abundance.

Catherynne M. Valente

We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of our technical calculation to be ultimately concrete and "fundamentally real," while our most intimate experiences are labelled "mere appearance" and something having reality only within the closet of the isolated mind. Suppose however we were to invert this whole scheme, reverse the order in which it assigns abstract and concrete. What is central to our experience, then, need not be peripheral to nature. This sunset now, for example, caught within the network of bare winter branches, seems like a moment of benediction in which the whole of nature collaborates. Why should not these colours and these charging banners of light be as much a part of the universe as the atoms and molecules that make them up? If they were only "in my mind," then I and my mind would no longer be a part of nature. Why should the pulse of life toward beauty and value not be a part of things? Following this path, we do not vainly seek to assemble the living out of configurations of dead stuff, but we descend downwards from more complex to simpler grades of the organic. From humans to trees to rocks; from "higher grade" to "lower grade" organisms. In the universe of energy, any individual thing is a pattern of activity within the flux, and thereby an organism at some level.

William Barrett

Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?

Amy Leach

An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath.

Aniruddha Sastikar

Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.

Michael Frayn

Experience speaks differently than Knowledge

Pawan Mehra

...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

Experience doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except "Carry bags underneath your eyes". A real experience comes by "Doing it , Learning from failures and again Doing it .... !" - Satish Kumar Ankala

Satish Kumar Ankala

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

When your Knowledge is Linked Together it is called Experience.

Udayveer Singh

A smooth sea never made a skilled marine.

English Proverb

The faithfulness of the Lord is so great that no mind can comprehend it, no hand can fold it, no mouth can describe it and no experience can compete with it. All that our hearts will need, His hands will provide!

Israelmore Ayivor

There are so many mistakes you can learn only by making them yourself. There is no substitute for experience.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are there as a reminder of what we have been through…

James A. Murphy

One who be armed with positive force energy may repell negative daggers, walk through the wilderness - and live to tell it.

T.F. Hodge

They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.

Lee Smith

The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.

Helen M. Luke

What is lived is what is valued.

T.F. Hodge

That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.

Sara Sheridan

There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.

Allan McLeod Cormack

Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.

Sara Sheridan

Buttercup dried her tears and began to smile. She took a deep breath, heaved a sigh. It was all part of growing up. You got these little quick passions, you blinked, and they were gone. You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next day the sun came up and it was over. Chalk it up to experience, old girl, and get on with the morning.

William Goldman

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.

Steve Maraboli

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.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Everyday Sun shines for new Experiences

Samar Sudha

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

I think sometimes we spend so much time trying to find out who we are we lose sight of who we want to be

Anonymous

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.

Idries Shah

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

I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substance is so much in doubt. By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.

John Milton

Change your state of being and your experience will follow.

Raphael Zernoff

You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst

Dean Cavanagh

You will find beauty in every person and experience if beauty has been cultivated within.

Bryant McGill

As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.

Bryant McGill

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.

Bryant McGill

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.

Bryant McGill

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

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