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Quotes About Experience

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
~ George Santayana
I think theatres will always remain a sacred place where people go for something live and experience things live, which is very different than the experience of film.
~ Susan Stroman
During the earliest stages of thought, accommodation remains on the surface of physical as well as social experience.
~ Jean Piaget
Usually, when you go to a movie, your consciousness floats above the film. 3D sucks you in and makes it a visceral experience.
~ James Cameron
You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion
~ Rumi
In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
~ Charles William Eliot
Wherever you are, be there. Lifestyle is not something we do; it is something we experience. And until we learn to be there, we will never master the art of living well.
~ Jim Rohn
The only truths we can point to are the ever-changing truths of our own experience.
~ Peter Weiss
A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
~ William Blake
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
~ Voltaire
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
~ Denis Waitley
The simple act of saying 'thank you' is a demonstration of gratitude in response to an experience that was meaningful to a customer or citizen.
~ Simon Mainwaring
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
~ Jonas Salk
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
All I know is that history repeats itself and people are going to want to experience the world. But I know then they are going to have a better appreciation for what is here in Maine.
~ John Baldacci
I want to experience a performance on all levels - I want goose bumps and I want to leave the movie or play arguing about something that's unresolved.
~ Julie Taymor
The first rule of venture capitalism is hands-on experience. You have to get your hands dirty.
~ Vinod Khosla
An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience.
~ F. H. Bradley
Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful
~ Albert Camus
If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.
~ Robert Torricelli
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.
~ Abraham Maslow
In dream consciousness we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.
~ Vilayat Inayat Khan
Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.
~ Bill Burr