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Quotes About Experience

Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Don't ask the mind to confirm what is beyond the mind. Direct experience is the only valid confirmation.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Despotism has so often been established in the name of liberty that experience should warn us to judge parties by their practices rather than their preachings.
~ Raymond Aron
I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.
~ Unknown
We can't change every little thing that happens to us in life, but we can change the way that we experience it.
~ Andy Puddicombe
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
~ James Russell Lowell
A heart can only discover what it really wants with experience.
~ Kathy Bates
The feeling we experience while we look at a picture is not to be distinguished from the picture or from ourselves. the feeling, picture, and ourselves are united in one mystery.
~ Rene Magritte
Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.
~ Roscoe Pound
Every line is the actual experience with its own unique story.
~ Cy Twombly
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
~ Georges Clemenceau
You need experience, adventure, and explorations more than you need algebra!
~ John Taylor Gatto
Mind is indeed the Builder . . . what is held in the act of mental vision becomes a reality in the material experience. We are gradually builded to that image created within our own mental being.
~ Edgar Cayce
As the Senator from Vermont was kind enough to note, I did have the experience of being commander in chief of our National Guard in Missouri for 8 years.
~ Christopher Bond
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
~ Sara Paretsky
Design needs to be plugged into human behavior. Design dissolves in behavior.
~ Naoto Fukasawa
Everything you experience mirrors a part of you.
~ Alberto Villoldo
A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do.
~ James A. Baldwin
Hell is the opposite of joy. It is unfulfillment. It is knowing Who and What You Are, and failing to experience that. It is being less.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Art is an experience, not an object.
~ Robert Motherwell
The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.
~ Max Weber
I'm gonna write from personal experience, from emotion, from whatever the hell I'm feeling that day.
~ Melanie Martinez
The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.
~ Jacques Lacan
The greatest gift is a 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.
~ Elizabeth Hardwick