Experience Quotes - page 4

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. (John Steinbeck)
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. View quote
Edward de Bono
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. View quote
Desiderius Erasmus
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. View quote
Francesco Guicciardini
The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade. View quote
George Steiner
If we are faithful to GOD in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpful to us in the more serious trials of life. View quote
James Hudson Taylor
Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
The immediacy of mystic experience simply means that we know God just as we know other objects. God is not a mathematical entity or a system of concepts mutually related to one another and having no reference to experience. View quote
Muhammad Iqbal
In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get - The Future! (Dan Quayle)
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. View quote
Randy Pausch
With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Live is never dull. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones? View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Experience by itself is not science. View quote
Edmund Husserl
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. View quote
Eric Hoffer
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics? View quote
Richard Courant
Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience. View quote
Mark Twain
Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. (Frank Herbert)
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. View quote
William Feather
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. View quote
Abraham Lincoln