Experience Quotes - page 30

But experience has shown that to be true which Appius says in his verses, that every man is the architect of his own fortune. (Sallust)
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act. View quote
Sophocles
Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience. View quote
Henepola Gunaratana
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. View quote
Mark Twain
Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself. View quote
Alan Turing
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering. View quote
Matthieu Ricard
I had someone at the Houston police station shoot me with heroin so I could do a story about it. The experience was a special kind of hell. I came out understanding full well how one could be addicted to 'smack,' and quickly. View quote
Dan Rather
The same piece of music alters at each hearing. But oh, the need to repeat and repeat and repeat unchanged the sexual experience. View quote
Ned Rorem
Knowledge is the distilled essence of our institutions, corroborated by experience. (Elbert Hubbard)
Experience is the name everyone gives his mistakes. View quote
Elbert Hubbard
breathe in experience breathe out poetry. View quote
Muriel Rukeyser
Any opposition not based on rationalism or science or experience will one day or other, reveal the fraud, selfishness, lies and conspiracies. View quote
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy
Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Experience does not err; only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
Time is the most precious gift in our possession, for it is the most irrevocable. This is what makes it so disturbing to look back upon the time which we have lost. Time lost is time when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering. Time lost is time not filled, time left empty. View quote
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience. View quote
Charles Bukowski
No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements. View quote
Rudolf Carnap
Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience, the empiricist posits the forms of being as constant. (Max Horkheimer)
I am the the type to have a personal experience with a celebrity, but I'm too classy to bring that up. View quote
Todd Barry
Anthroposophy is a path of knowledge, to guide the spiritual in the human being to the spiritual in the universe... Anthroposophists are those who experience, as an essential need of life, certain questions on the nature of the human being and the universe, just as one experiences hunger and thirst. View quote
Rudolf Steiner
In some mysterious way, once one has gained an insight into human nature, that insight grows from day to day, and he to whom it has given to experience vicariously even one single form of earthly suffering acquires, by reason of this tragic lesson, an understanding of all its forms, even those most foreign to him, and apparently abnormal. View quote
Stefan Zweig
For one who is having no personal experience, the passionate disquiet of others is at any rate a titillation of the nerves, like seeing a play or listening to music. View quote
Stefan Zweig