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Quotes About Experience

In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.
~ Bertrand Russell
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
~ John Milton
The paths by which people journey toward happiness lie in part through the world about them and in part through the experience of their own soul.
~ Carl Hilty
In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style.
~ Cat Stevens
It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.
~ Jim James
I think movies have much more magic than the theater. Theater can be a magical experience, but movies thrust their subjectivity on you in a more profound way.
~ Zoe Kazan
Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.
~ Thomas Carlyle
We see the world through our experience.
~ John Paul Caponigro
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience
~ Bridget Riley
The function of poetry is religious invocation of the muse; its use is the experience of mixed exaltation and horror that her presence excites.
~ Robert Graves
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
~ Matthieu Ricard
Our theories are the weakest part of what we say. What we're working from is the fact of an experience which we need to make sense of.
~ Terence McKenna
Now that Britain has voted to leave, I think the country deserves to have a leader who believes in Britain outside the European Union and who also has experience at the highest level of government.
~ Michael Gove
Zen culture invites us to experience reality without the intervening distractions of intellect, categories, analysis.
~ Unknown
Self dedication is a spiritual experience.
~ Cesar Chavez
So my first book I had no experience having written a book, but each book is a little snapshot of who you are at that moment, accrued all through time, so I accept that.
~ Chang-Rae Lee
Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
The acting experience and the collaborating and creating the world, working on the piece, they're the same joys.
~ Keanu Reeves
It has been my experience that maximizing income is a helluva lot less important than maximizing passion and fulfillment in your both professionally and personally.
~ John Green
We're delighted to be working with Apple to offer fans a new and innovative way to experience our wildly popular shows.
~ Bob Iger
Human beings have a tendency to push away unwanted pain, but my experience is that when I give my consent to it, it delivers its gift and moves on.
~ Michael Beckwith
We must learn to understand humanity better so that we can create an environment that is more beneficial to people, more rewarding, more pleasant to experience.
~ John C. Portman, Jr.
A picture was once a rare sort of symbol, rare enough to call for attentive concentration. Now it is the actual experience that is rare, and the picture has become ubiquitous.
~ Lewis Mumford