Experience Quotes

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.

My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced "“ even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose

The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it.

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.

Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

The reward of suffering is experience

I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Deep experience is never peaceful.

I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.

When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

Science is the systematic classification of experience.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.

Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.

See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.

If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death

Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.

Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

Experience is never at bargain price.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.

It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.

Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.

It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.

Food is our common ground, a universal experience.

I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Love is a hole in the heart.

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.

An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.

Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.

Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.

A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.

There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.

The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.

Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.

An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.

People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.

The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.

You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.

Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.

It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.

There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

As between mileage and experience choose experience.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us.".

You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.

When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different

It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.

The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.

Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

We can't learn without pain.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.

From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant

Go far — too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.

You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.

An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience

You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.

Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.

Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.

Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

Family... a group experience of love and support.

To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

Life is consciousness.

You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.

The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.

I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

There's no fool like an old fool —- you can't beat experience.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… do the thing you think you cannot do.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.

Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.