Quotes About Experience

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

There's a small still center into which conception can arrive. And when it arrives, you make it welcome with your experience.

How could you tell children they were playing with fire if they´d never had the experience of being burned?

Reality is the completion of experience.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

The world is the true classroom. The most rewarding and important type of learning is through experience, seeing something with our own eyes.

The world of immediate experience the world in which we find ourselves living must be comprehended, transformed, even subverted in order to become that which it really is.

But I like all the books. You've got to read them all to get the complete Harry Potter experience.

Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

I want people to flourish. I want them to walk away from the experience going, "That's what it should be like."

[Bob] Dylan crashed his motorcycle in 1967, and almost died. A few years ago, he referred to the experience as a "transfiguration."

When the heart is touched by direct experience, the mind may be challenged to change.

Comparing is impoverishing your own experience

It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.

Experience first, then intellectualize.

We begin every act of choice and avoidance from pleasure, and it is to pleasure that we return using our experience of pleasure as the criterion of every good thing.

For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can.

Well, 'The Wellspring' was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others' experience.

I never deny a true experience in one shot.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

That peculiar disease of intellectuals, that infatuation with ideas at the expense of experience, that compels experience to conform to bookish expectations.

One of the most critical reasons believers experience defeat is because we categorize only a few areas of our lives as Christ's arena.

Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people who've got an incredible talent was just a great experience.