Experience Quotes - page 26

In my experience, it takes only one person to have a successful relationship, and that's me. (Byron Katie)
What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a set who are thought to be better. The former assumption, I believe is always sound; the latter is just as certainly false. For if experience teaches us anything at all it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. View quote
H. L. Mencken
I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists. View quote
Salvador Allende
Experience first, then intellectualize. View quote
Carl Orff
Language fits over experience like a straight jacket. View quote
William Golding
When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Quantum fiction is any story that witnesses life and the human experience on a subatomic level. View quote
Vanna Bonta
Never say, and never take seriously anyone who says, "I cannot believe that so-and-so could have evolved by gradual selection". I have dubbed this kind of fallacy "the Argument from Personal Incredulity". Time and again, it has proven the prelude to an intellectual banana-skin experience. View quote
Richard Dawkins
One believes in the truthfulness of a man because of his long experience with the man, and because the man has always told a consistent story. But no man has told so consistent a story as nature. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Monotheism at Sinai, primitive Christianity, messianic socialism: these are the three supreme moments in which Western culture is presented with what Ibsen termed "the claims of the ideal." These are the three stages, profoundly interrelated, through which Western consciousness is forced to experience the blackmail of transcendence. View quote
George Steiner
Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience. (Czesław Miłosz)
The ideal situation for any state is to experience sharp economic growth while its rivals' economies grow slowly or hardly at all. View quote
John Mearsheimer
You are in physical existence to learn and understand that your energy, translated into feelings, thoughts and emotions, causes all experience. There are no exceptions. View quote
Robert Butts
A childish feeling, I admit, but, when we retire from the conventions of society and draw close to nature, we involuntarily become children: each attribute acquired by experience falls away from the soul, which becomes anew such as it was once and will surely be again. View quote
Mikhail Lermontov
The arts objectify subjective reality, and subjectify outward experience of nature. Art education is the education of feeling, and a society that neglects it gives itself up to formless emotion. Bad art is corruption of feeling. View quote
Susanne Langer
Reason, observation, and experience; the holy trinity of science. View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. View quote
Lewis Mumford
When governments and other vested interests attack me personally I usually regard it as a vindication, otherwise they would use facts. That's why I believe in the wonderful Claud Cockburn dictum, 'Never believe anything until it is officially denied.' It has certainly been my experience. View quote
John Pilger
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into the bloody yet beautiful labyrinth of human experience, of being. (Nadine Gordimer)
If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use in reporting religious experience, as "spiritual life,” "God,” "soul,” "cross,” etc., and if they could not find new ones next week, they might remain silent. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were rooted in a tradition. Today's literature is, for instance, largely destructive. View quote
Martin Heidegger
Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves. View quote
Euripides
Be sincere; talk only about your genuine experience; do not distort, exaggerate or falsify that experience. View quote
Sathya Sai Baba