Quotes About Experience

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective.

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. — WILLIAM JAMES

Education is the best provision for old age. — ARISTOTLE

If you are mindful that old age has wisdom for its food you will so exert yourself in youth that your old age will not lack sustenance. — LEONARDO DA VINCI

Faith, for Paul, is a death experience, a death that creates life.

in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid."429

Learning depends on curiosity and asking questions. The experience of curiosity is equivalent to continuously living and operating out of a question frame as simple as "What's this?"—as all children do. It is through questions that we operationalize curiosity into behavior, and as a result they are the foundation of any kind of learning, be it formal, informal, or personal.

No one can be told who they are. It is an experience, a shift in reality, a change in consciousness.

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

Happiness lies deep within us, in the very core of our being. Happiness does not exist in any external object, but only in us, who are the consciousness that experiences happiness. Though we seem to derive happiness from external objects or experiences, the happiness that we thus enjoy in fact arises from within us.

Learning is a gift, even when pain is your teacher!

Las personas entran y salen de nuestra de vida. Nunca llegamos a enterarnos de cuándo y cómo llegan, ni tampoco de cuándo y cómo se van. Simplemente, aprendemos de ello, lo sobrellevamos como podemos y seguimos adelante. Así es como funciona. Y eso es lo que tienes que hacer tú ahora.

The more automated our experience becomes, the less involved we are in the art of living.

It is, of course, essential to remember that theology is not merely a matter of intellect, but also of experience. Theology is concerned with spiritual realities, and must include personal experience as well as ideas ... The feeling equally with reason must share in the consideration of theology, because theology is of the heart, and the deepest truths are inextricably bound up with personal needs and experiences.17

As long as we continue to perceive our life as purely a physical occurrence, or as a mental construct that has become manifest physically, our attempt to transform the quality of our experience within it remains ineffectual.

The reality of our situation is that if we are an adult living upon the earth as it is now, we have fully entered the experience of addiction.

The trouble has generally been . . . that people have emphasized either experience or doctrine at the expense of the other. . . . This is something that has been happening in the church from almost the very beginning. . . . When the whole emphasis is placed upon one or the other, you either have a tendency to fanaticism and excess or a tendency toward a barren intellectualism and a mechanical and a dead kind of orthodoxy.

Sometimes I wonder if we live life by reliving life, rather than by living life.

It's hard to explain your passions, but sometimes it is harder to live them.

Each day is a lifetime.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice, Amos

I would insist that poetry is a normal human activity and its proper concern all the things that happen to people.

The men on the trading floor may not have been to school, but they have Ph.D.'s in man's ignorance.

In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing, as well as a funny one, on comedy shows.