Quotes About Experience

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry. Rita Rudner

If you knew what I knew, seen what I've seen, you wouldn't be so quick to pull the plow.

I had a lot of those memories clicking before me like projector slides in the dark. Lots of pictures, smells and sounds flashing in and out.

I remember a time when smoke filled the house. Not coughing smoke but smoke from a woman's smooth-voiced singing, with piano, bass, and drums. All together these sounds made smoke. Uncle Darnell would say, "You can't remember that. You were two. Three, maybe." But I do. I still see, hear, and feel bits and flashes. The sounds of musical smoke.

You don't know something bothers you until you no longer have to do it. Suddenly you're both angry and glad. Angry you did it for all those years and glad you'll never do it again.

Thus empiricism directed attention away from abstract principles to the data of experience. Hence, while the philosophers of the pre-Enlightenment period favoured the geometric method, reasoning deductively from first principles, their successors worked by induction, first observing particular details and arriving eventually at general truths.

No one has gone through life without acquiring scars and bruises. Some wounds are hidden inside us and only we can feel. They are badges of our day-to-day struggle to learn and survive. RJ Intindola – 1981

No one has gone through life without acquiring scars and bruises. These wounds are hidden inside us and only we can feel. They are badges of our day-to-day struggle to learn and survive.

Quit telling us to forget the past and never look back. We learned from the past, gained wisdom from the past that we apply every day in the process of living. If we forget the past, we'll forget who we are since that's where we came from.

We gain knowledge by going through life, education, reading and other learning techniques. And with this knowledge we are now able to imagine.

We tend to remember our mistakes more than other actions because they leave us feeling uncomfortable. And because we don't like feeling that way, we are less likely to repeat our mistakes. The same can also be said for taking chances and putting aside our fears.

The more you travel, the more well-off you'll be, I think.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.

Whether we are reading the Bible for the first time or standing in a field in Israel next to a historian and an archaeologist and a scholar, the Bible meets us where we are. That is what truth does

The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.

You have to get older. Growing up is negotiable.

When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness … it changes what we see. It changes what we remember.

I liked being a teenager, but I would not go back for all the tea in China.

According to research at Northwestern University (Donna Bridge, Feinberg School of Medicine), your memory of an event is not actually a memory of the event, but a recall (memory) of the last recall (memory) of the event. The more recalls, the more the memory changes, like Chinese whispers. So, you can be holding on to events that have changed over time and become even further from the past reality. And that's kind of nuts.

Have recovered somewhat from massive, delicious, inundating influx of life memories. Man, it is soooooooooo goooooooooood to be ME again.

Telling them the story of my life as I knew it (i.e., the last four days). Good times, good times.

At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls ' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.'

You lose a certain type of innocence when you experience this type of kindness. You lose your right to be a jaded cynic. You can no longer go back through the looking glass and pretend not to know what you know about kindness.