Experience Quotes - page 5

The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. (Sigmund Freud)
I have found little that is "good" about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think. View quote
Sigmund Freud
Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples. View quote
Niklaus Wirth
Truth is what stands the test of experience. View quote
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. View quote
Albert Einstein
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners. View quote
Edward Abbey
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are cheques drawn on insufficient funds. View quote
René Daumal
The free world knows, out of the bitter wisdom of experience, that vigilance and sacrifice are the price of liberty. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building. View quote
Miguel Syjuco
Watching television in those days was not the same experience as it is today. After years of listening to radio, we found the black-and-white images mesmerizing. View quote
Annette Funicello
Japan is the only country in the world to have suffered the ravages of atomic bombing. That experience left an indelible mark on the hearts of our people, making them passionately determined to renounce all wars. (Eisaku Sato)
Experience is the cane of the blind. View quote
Jacques Roumain
In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later. View quote
Harold Geneen
Conviction without experience makes for harshness. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. View quote
Flannery O’Connor
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. View quote
Charlie Parker
Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves we are the same. View quote
John Denver
Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. View quote
Clarence Day
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice. View quote
Harry S. Truman
A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation. View quote
George Gershwin
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience. (William James)
The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass to their daily affairs and experience to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practise. The rest is affectation and imposture. View quote
William Hazlitt
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
My own experience and development deepen everyday my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. View quote
George Eliot
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations. View quote
George Eliot