Experience Quotes - page 22

I think from my experience in war and life and science, it all has made me believe that we have one life on this planet. We have one chance to live it and to contribute to the future of society and the future of life. The only "afterlife" is what other people remember of you. (Craig Venter)
About six months ago, I listened to Siamese Dream. That was the first time I'd ever really heard my own album, because I had separated from the experience of making the record. And it really moved me. It made me cry, it's so beautiful. View quote
Billy Corgan
Experience by itself teaches nothing...Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence without theory there is no learning. View quote
W. Edwards Deming
A beautifully constructed borsch, such as you are going to experience presently, ought not only to banish conversation but almost to annihilate thought. View quote
Saki
The [Afghans] understand the difficult truth that their best hope of freedom lies in a temporary experience of imperial rule. View quote
Michael Ignatieff
Cultivate truth, good faith, experience, cleverness, sociability, and industry. View quote
Pittacus of Mytilene
Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's no way out of it. You cannot psychologically reframe your experience and decide you did not like the shirt, here's an excuse to throw it out - that sort of thing. View quote
Robert Sapolsky
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past. View quote
Patrick Henry
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can. View quote
John Dos Passos
I protest against deference to any man, whether John Stuart Mill, or Adam Smith, or Aristotle, being allowed to check inquiry. Our science has become far too much a stagnant one, in which opinions rather than experience and reason are appealed to. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul's power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God. (Paramahansa Yogananda)
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful. View quote
Jeff Bezos
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place. View quote
Iain Banks
You used the word "civilization", which means a set of abstractions, symbols, conventions. Experience tends to be vicarious; emotions are predigested and electrical; ideas become more real than things. View quote
Jack Vance
Anyway, that's what life is, just one learning experience after another, and when you're through with all the learning experiences you graduate and what you get for a diploma is, you die. View quote
Frederik Pohl
American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret. View quote
David Foster Wallace
There are defining moments in one's life when you learn about yourself, and you deposit that knowledge in the experience account, so you can draw on it at some later date. View quote
Jeffrey Archer
Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their own Death, which no Man fears by Experience. View quote
Thomas Browne
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. View quote
Arnold Bennett
The degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others. View quote
Erving Goffman
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others. (Walter Lippmann)
We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction. View quote
Malcolm Gladwell
Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. View quote
Joseph Roux
Let me tell you something you haven't learned yet, something you learn only by living awhile. As you get older, you find that life begins to wear you down. Doesn't matter who you are or what you do, it happens. Experience, time, events-they all conspire against you to steal away your energy, to erode your confidence, to make you question things you wouldn't have given a second thought to when you were young. It happens gradually, a chipping away that you don't even notice at first, and then one day it's there. You wake up and you just don't have the fire anymore. View quote
Terry Brooks
The longer I live and the more experience I have of the world, the more I am convinced that, after all, the one thing that is most worth living for and dying for, if need be is the opportunity of making someone else more happy and more useful. View quote
Booker T. Washington