Experience Quotes
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
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Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
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Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
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It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.
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When a man, after long years of searching, chances upon a thought which discloses something of the beauty of this mysterious universe, he should not therefore be personally celebrated. He is already sufficiently paid by his experience of seeking and finding.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
