Experience quotes

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

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.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.

Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts 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.

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.