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Quotes About Experience

Everything you see or hear or experience in any way at all is specific to you. You create a universe by perceiving it, so everything in the universe you perceive is specific to you.
~ Douglas Adams
All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
Without passions you have no experience whatever.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It is really important to have an obsessive need to construct something, to understand something from your own experience.
~ Gregory Crewdson
The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.
~ Sivananda
Deep experience is never peaceful.
~ Henry James
Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
The experience of space is not a privilege of the gifted few, but a biological function.
~ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
In order to know the light, we must first experience the darkness.
~ Carl Jung
I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.
~ Ray Toro
But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.
~ Tommy Tenney
The only intuitive interface is the nipple. Everything else is learned.
~ Bruce Tognazzini
If there were a science of human beings it would be anthropology that aims at understanding the totality of experience through structural context.
~ Wilhelm Dilthey
I have experience seducing nephews.
~ Gina Lollobrigida
And if you find her poor, Ithaca has not deceived you. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean.
~ C.P. Cavafy
The more acute the experience, the less articulate its expression.
~ Harold Pinter
Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you're painting.
~ Lee Krasner
Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.
~ Dennis McKenna
The abundance you desire to experience must first be an experience in your mind.
~ Ernest Holmes
The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego.
~ Carl Jung
I have the benefit of experience which tells me that sulking solves nothing
~ Cassandra Clare
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
~ John Berger
What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.
~ Isak Dinesen