Quotes About Experience

No estamos todos de acuerdo en que hemos aprendido algunas cosas en la vida que ahora desearíamos nunca haber conocido? Hemos sufrido cosas que desearíamos no haber experimentado nunca. Allí está la sutileza. Cuando no escuchamos a Dios oímos otras voces cuya apelación es la de la independencia y el orgullo, y cuyo sistema de valores es la antítesis del de Dios.

How many companies can say that the amount of customers who use their services second most often, and spend the second most amount of money with them, are "very negative"?

When we walk into a wood, we share its sensory outputs (light, colour, smell, sound and so on) with all the other creatures there. But would any of them recognise our description of the wood? Every organism creates a different world in its brain. It lives in that world.

It is a bad idea to live too long. Few carry it off well.

And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life. Certainly neither she nor Inman were the people they had been the last time they were together. And she believed maybe she liked them both better now.

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

Polanyi argued that we only truly know something—that is, have personal knowledge of it—when we can apply it to get results.

Human nature is just about the only nature some people experience.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

'Tis curious that we only believe as deep as we live.

Someone asked me the other day if I had my life to live over would I change anything. My answer was no, but then I thought about it and changed my mind... I would have eaten less cottage cheese and more ice cream.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

We mature in knowledge and wisdom but never leave the playground of our hearts.

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.

Laughter is an orgasm triggered by the intercourse of sense and nonsense.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at 20 or at 80. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable, regardless of physical capacity.

The post-office has a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for.

Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it... Being alive is the meaning.

There were growling days and laughing days and days that mixed them up.

...life is a gift to be accepted and returned. Life is a celebration, it is a learning, it is a gift.

When you say, "The burned child dreads the fire," you mean that he is already a master of induction.

I don't suffer from insanity — I enjoy every minute of it.