Quotes About Experience

For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

I'm 482 months old; can you tell I'm a new father?

MAY 27 CRUCIAL TO THE hermeneutical approach is the Mahayana principle of the four reliances. These are: (i) reliance on the teaching, not on the teacher; (ii) reliance on the meaning, not on the words that express it; (iii) reliance on the definitive meaning, not on the provisional meaning; and (iv) reliance on the transcendent wisdom of deep experience, not on mere knowledge.

guess rich folks can have some ghetto drama, too, because that was too much. But if I had to choose between rich-ghetto drama and poor-ghetto drama, I'm going with rich every time. At least I can buy some retail therapy to help me through my issues.

a relationship isn't good because it lasts a lifetime. A relationship is good if it gives you the wisdom of a lifetime.

Wine is so complex, I mused. Thousands of experts and hundreds of thousands of amateur experts would rhapsodize or vilify the vinification of these seemingly simple bunches of grapes. But in the end, it was just these innocuous clusters, photosynthesis, rain or no rain, cool ocean breezes, alluvial soils, that produced these epiphanies in the bottle hundreds and thousands of miles away.

I forced a swift smile, then turned back to my glass, salvation and sanctuary viniferously bundled into one.

We were drinking a memory, one that would be forever associated with the memory of this trip.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread. Pfui!

Opinions, from experts, cost money.

When I told [Lily Rowan] I wouldn't be able to make it to the Polo Grounds tomorrow, she began to call Wolfe names, and thought of several new ones that showed her wide experience and fine feeling for words.

War doesn't mature men; it merely pickles them in the brine of disgust and dread.

I was having an experience that was not new to me. I had suddenly discovered that a decision had been made, by me, upon full consideration, without my knowing it.

These smokes can take it, they're used to it.

That's right," he said, "I must remember that, not to get excited. Everybody is very thoughtful. They put you in uniform and teach you what every young man ought to know, and take you across the ocean into the middle of hell, bombs, bullets, shells, flame-throwers, your friends die right against you and bleed down your neck, and after two years of that they bring you home and turn you loose and tell you now remember don't get excited.

You are to act in the light of experience as guided by intelligence.

but I knew from long experience that you never knew when you were going to run up against someone with as many feet as a centipede and all of them reluctant.

had to gulp the coffee, and it was as hot as hell's dishwater.

The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.

most people in the ancient world, did not make a sharp distinction between myth and reality. The two were intimately tied together in their spiritual experience. That is to say, they were less interested in what actually happened , than in what it meant . It would have been perfectly normal, indeed expected, for a writer in the ancient world, to tell tales of gods and heroes, whose fundamental facts would have been recognized as false, but whose underlying message would have been seen as true.

Pain was uniquely one's own, and undiminished by a democracy of suffering.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

Money is only a tool for you to experience the things you love in life. When you think about the things you can do with money, you will feel much more love and joy than when you think only of money. Imagine being with what you love, doing what you love, and having the things you love, because you will then feel far more love than you will if you only think about money.

Turn your wounds into wisdom." Oprah Winfrey (B. 1954) MEDIA PERSONALITY AND BUSINESSWOMAN