Quotes About Experience

Ignorance is innocence - stupidity comes with experience

Experience had taught me that even the most precious memories fade with the passage of time.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience.

Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

What you believe you experience.

The Afro-American experience is the only real culture that America has. Basically, every American tries to walk, talk, dress and behave like African Americans.

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

Of course, the drug does not produce the transcendent experience. It merely acts as a chemical key — it opens the mind, frees the nervous system of its ordinary patterns and structures.

Acting is experience with something sweet behind it.

In the experience of yogins who do not perceive things dualistically, the fact that things manifest without truly existing is so amazing they burst into laughter

No one questions the fact that verbal language has to be learned, but the commonplaceness of visual experience betrays art; people tend to assume that, because they can see, they can see art.

we have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

I cannot fear to be wrong because I never think I'm wrong until I am proven wrong. In fact, I am uncomfortable unless I am capitalizing my experience.