Experience Quotes - page 21

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald. (Navjot Singh Sidhu)
We all die alone. We shall endure death as once we enjoyed birth. You can't share either experience. View quote
P. D. James
I am a Liberal, yet I am a Liberal tempered by experience, reflexion, and renouncement, and I am, above all, a believer in culture. View quote
Matthew Arnold
The bias against the show is purely elitist. We're all like the people on the show – the difference is that some of us speak better, or were born richer. There's nothing that happens on my show that rich people don't experience. View quote
Jerry Springer
Sometimes the Lord gives us a free sample of religious experience, but for more, we must pay a price with the currency of sincere dedication to the process of cleansing. View quote
Radhanath Swami
One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience. Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from this experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give. This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art. View quote
James Baldwin
In this universe, experience counts. View quote
John Scalzi
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. View quote
Marianne Moore
Induction is the process of taking things within our experience to be representative of the world outside our experience. It is a process of projection or extrapolation. View quote
Simon Blackburn
It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. View quote
Ram Dass
Both a priori reasoning and experience teach us that as as these funds grow larger the geometrical rate of growth by compound interest ultimately defeats itself. (Benjamin Graham)
If we assume that there are normal or standard income results to be obtained from investing money in securities, then the role of the adviser can be more readily established. He will use his superior training and experience to protect his clients against mistakes and to make sure that they obtain the results to which their money is entitled. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The history of the past fifty years, and longer, indicates that a diversified holding of representative common stocks will prove more profitable over a stretch of years than a bond portfolio, with one important provisio-that the shares must be purchased at reasonable market levels, that is, levels that are reasonable in the light of fairly well-defined standards derived from past experience. View quote
Benjamin Graham
The colours red, blue and green are real. The colour yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody. View quote
Tom Stoppard
This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of, the shift of our emphasis to, the universal life that throbs and celebrates its victory in the very kiss of our own annihilation, this amor fati, "love of fate," love of the fate that is inevitably death, constitutes the experience of the tragic art... View quote
Joseph Campbell
I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue. View quote
William H. Seward
I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience. View quote
Clive Barker
At best Americans give but limited attention to history. Too much happens too rapidly, and before we can evaluate it, or exhaust its meaning or pleasure, there is something new to concern us. Ours is the tempo of the motion picture, not that of the still camera, and we waste experience as we wasted the forest. View quote
Ralph Ellison
The blues is an impulse to keep the painful details and episodes of a brutal experience alive in one's aching consciousness, to finger its jagged grain, and to transcend it, not by the consolation of philosophy, but by squeezing from it a near-tragic, near-comic lyricism. As a form the blues is an autobiographical chronicle of personal catastrophe expressed lyrically. View quote
Ralph Ellison
I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds, I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience? View quote
Mother Teresa
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. (Oscar Wilde)
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in. View quote
Alfred de Vigny
As the reflections of our pride upon our defects are bitter, disheartening, and vexatious, so the return of the soul towards God is peaceful and sustained by confidence. You will find by experience how much more your progress will be aided by this simple, peaceful turning towards God, than by all your chagrin and spite at the faults that exist in you. View quote
François Fénelon
In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong. View quote
Martin Amis
When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us. View quote
Nhat Hanh