Quotes About Experience

A traveler's most interesting meals tend to happen by surprise.

I want them to think of being in church as being in the middle of a work of art, a collective witness of fellow human beings, wherever they are and whatever they're up to.

My so-called love for humanity, for instance, isn't something I get to carry around in my heart. It has to find application among the weird, desperate people who populate my daily experience. It has to put on flesh. If it doesn't, I might take pleasure in the warm, fuzzy feeling of my personal, private faith, but it wouldn't be appropriate to call it Christianity.

Every moment of your life is either a test or a celebration

If you don't read books, and if you don't get consumed by the physical and moral life of men and women in fiction and history, too many facets of yourself may never come into being.

For many kids, a good teacher may be the most palpable form of honor they will ever experience.

SOCRATES: No, I am not sure of anything. I never have been. But the god explained to me why that must be so, starting with the fallibility of the human mind and the unreliability of sensory experience.

As the ancient philosopher Heraclitus remarked, 'No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

Scientific theories explain the objects and phenomena of our experience in terms of an underlying reality which we do not experience directly. But the ability of a theory to explain what we experience is not its most valuable attribute. Its most valuable attribute is that it explains the fabric of reality itself.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.

One consequence of this tradition of criticism was the emergence of a methodological rule that a scientific theory must be testable (though this was not made explicit at first). That is to say, the theory must make predictions which, if the theory were false, could be contradicted by the outcome of some possible observation. Thus, although scientific theories are not derived from experience, they can be tested by experience – by observation or experiment

For most of the history of our species, we had almost no success in creating such knowledge. Where does it come from? Empiricism said that we derive it from sensory experience. This is false. The real source of our theories is conjecture, and the real source of our knowledge is conjecture alternating with criticism.

The usefulness of an elder will depend in the long run more on his character than on his gifts and knowledge.

You can eat a Burger for $5 or a Kobe Steak for $100. They both fill you up. The real difference is the experience.

There's nothing wrong with acknowledging the panoply of life's rich experience.

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

I've looked at the world for quite a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll probably end up crying." - Prince Kheldar of Drasnia

And the road is a villain And the road is a friend And the road is a story No beginning no end

Tennessee Williams: 'Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.

It was as though the very process of maturation with him had been reversed, so that with experience he seemed to grow more, not less, childish.

Life, I've learned, is not an affair of joy.

But you need to have lived years in nothingness to understand how a person can suddenly become frightened by a possibility.

Each breath of air a world

Pourquoi sommes-nous autant marqués par un détail, un geste, qui font de ces instants minimes le coeur d'une époque?