Experience quotes

The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.

I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

All theory is against freedom of the will all experience for it.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.