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Quotes About Experience

Mr Brown is a politician of exceptional experience and ability, and I am sure he will discharge the office of Prime Minister with distinction
~ Unknown
I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
~ W. H. Auden
Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.
~ Eric Church
But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.
~ Robert Breault
The transformation of the experience: that is pure art.
~ Rebecca Horn
If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.
~ David Hume
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
~ John Keats
I always stressed that I didn't have coaching experience, but that I did have a deadline: June 9.
~ Jurgen Klinsmann
I have friends who've tried to break into the UK, who went back with their tails between their legs. Fortunately I've had the opposite experience.
~ Michael Bolton
You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.
~ Kenneth Rexroth
The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.
~ William Howard Taft
There is something terribly radical about believing that one's own experience and images are important enough to speak about, much less to write about and to perform
~ James A. Baldwin
Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.
~ Narendra Modi
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
~ Martha Beck
Lean into the sharp points and fully experience them. The essence of bravery is being without self-deception. Wisdom is inherent in (understanding) emotions.
~ Pema Chodron
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.
~ Alan Watts
Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.
~ Eric Hoffer
Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
~ Elie Wiesel
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.
~ Bob Geldof
Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.
~ Bob Hayes
Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
~ bell hooks