Quotes About Experience

At the market I ate a piece of a grilled monkey—it looked like a naked child.

Roll up your sleeves and work as a bouncer in a sex club or a warden in a lunatic asylum or a machine operator in a slaughterhouse. Drive a taxi for six months and you'll have enough money to make a film. Walk on foot, learn languages and a craft or trade that has nothing to do with cinema. Filmmaking — like great literature — must have experience of life at its foundation. Read Conrad or Hemingway and you can tell how much real life is in those books.

The best men tell you the truth because they think you can take it; the worst men either try to preserve you in some innocent state with their false protection, or are 'brutally honest.' When someone tells, lets you think for yourself, experience your own emotions, he is treating you as a true equal, a friend…And the best men cook for you.

The man who drinks Zambezi waters must always return to drink again.

You're too old for this type of living,' he told

I prefer books that take me on a journey, whether it's across vast distances and epic landscapes or one that twists and turns and surprises me with what happens on each page.

What is experienced from within cannot be categorized in concepts that have been developed for the external world of the senses.

In the case of lived experience, there is no difference between an object that is perceived and the eye that perceives it.

If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.

The existence of inherent limits of experience in no way settles the question about the subordination of facts of the human world to our knowledge of matter.

The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and better methods.

In the real life-process, willing, feeling, and thinking are only different aspects.

On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.

In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.

see with nobody's eyes, we hear with nobody's ears, we feel with nobody's hearts, but our own.

How it was I don't understand, but we always seemed to be getting, with the best of motives, in one another's way. When I wanted to go up-stairs, there was my wife coming down; or when my wife wanted to go down, there was I coming up. That is married life, according to my experience of it.

Erkekler bize söyledikleri ac? sözleri ne kadar iyi hat?rlad???m?z? ve can?m?z? nas?l yakt?klar?n? pek bilmezler.

I hope Mr. Hartright will pay me no compliments,' said Miss Fairlie, as we all left the summer-house. 'May I venture to inquire why you express that hope?' I asked. 'Because I shall believe all that you say to me,' she answered, simply. In those few words she unconsciously gave me the key to her whole character; to that generous trust in others which, in her nature, grew innocently out of the sense of her own truth. I only knew it intuitively then. I know it by experience now.

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs. Vesey SAT through life.

Look where we may, the dark threads and the light cross each other perpetually in the texture of human life.

Mr. Troy was not only a man of learning and experience in his profession—he was also a man who had seen something of society at home and abroad. He possessed a keen eye for character, a quaint humour, and a kindly nature which had not been deteriorated even by a lawyer's professional experience of mankind. With

Nada hay en este mundo, Betteredge, que se aparezca como una cosa probable, si no logramos vincularla con nuestra engañosa experiencia, y sólo creemos en lo novelesco cuando se halla estampado en letras de molde.

History is an excellent teacher with few pupils.