Quotes About Experience

The journey is the reward

I had been listening to a lot of Bach. All of a sudden the wheat field was playing Bach. It was the most wonderful feeling of my life up to that point. I felt like the conductor of this symphony with Bach coming through the wheat.

On Thanksgiving weekend of his senior year, Wozniak visited the University of Colorado.

Reflecting years later on his spiritual feelings, he said that religion was at its best when it emphasized spiritual experiences rather than received dogma. "The juice goes out of Christianity when it becomes too based on faith rather than on living like Jesus or seeing the world as Jesus saw it

Stoop, young man, stoop—as you go through this world—and you'll miss many hard thumps.

Queremos que, cuando abras la caja de un iPhone o de un iPad, la experiencia táctil condicione cómo vas a percibir el dispositivo, señaló.

Todo conocimiento de la realidad parte de la experiencia y acaba en ella.

la intuición no es más que el resultado de una experiencia intelectual anterior.»

we others who thirst for reason want to look our experiences as straight in the eye as if they represented a scientific experiment

There is apparently, here and there on earth, a kind of continuation of love where this greedy desire of two persons for each other has given way to a new craving and greed, a common higher thirst for an ideal that stands above [über] them: but who knows this love? who has experienced it? Its true name is friendship [FW 14].

She's everything I wanted when I was young and everything I distrust now that I'm not.

If you've helped someone die, there is nothing I can tell you. If you haven't, I don't want to tell you. But I must, or what came later may make no sense.

Almost no two experiences are exactly alike, not even of two children in the same household. The older son never does have the experience of being the younger. And therefore, until we are able to discount the difference in nurture, we must withhold judgment about differences of nature. As well as judge the productivity of two soils by comparing their yield before you know which is in Labrador and which in Iowa, whether they have been cultivated and enriched, exhausted, or allowed to run wild.

When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' less somebody else can understand.

I thought I recognized him but most cops blended into one brutal fist for me after a while.

The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit' it. Now, if that ain't the blues, I don't know what is.

Everybody was screaming for joy. That's what children do - they scream because life is just too much for them but they don't know it yet.

THAT WAS IT. A life worth remembering is hell to live.

Yeah. If you've never been knocked down, then you've never been in a fight.

Her experience in life was limited and so she fought battles in an imaginary arena

Sure can. But you know a white man got to go through sumpin' 'fore he could call a black man friend. White man got to see the shit an' smell it too before he could really know a black friend." Jean-Paul

When you get old you begin to understand that no one talks unless someone listens, and no one knows nuthin' 'less somebody else can understand.

I ate with them and slept with them, and I killed enough blue-eyed young men to know that they were just as afraid to die as I was.

I seen it all," old Coydog used to say, "but that don't mean I seen everything.