Experience Quotes - page 6

We always live at the time we live and not at some other time, and only by extracting at each present time the full meaning of each present experience are we prepared for doing the same thing in the future. (John Dewey)
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. View quote
Carlos Fuentes
You are about to have your first experience with a Greek lunch. I will kill you if you pretend to like it. View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health. View quote
Robert E. Lee
To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience. View quote
Peter Sellers
A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died: Johnson said, it was the triumph of hope over experience. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. View quote
Samuel Johnson
The triumph of hope over experience. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. View quote
Margaret Atwood
It cannot be too frequently emphasized that the behavior of any animal must depend upon on the nature of the stimulus which it meets, its anatomic and physiologic capacities, and its background of previous experience. Unless it has been conditioned by previous experience, an animal should respond identically to identical stimuli, whether they emanate from some part of its own body, from another individual of the same sex, or from an individual of the opposite sex. View quote
Alfred Kinsey
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts. (Philip Roth)
In short, both experience and economic theory imply that the US could now t to a more competitive dollar without experiencing either increased inflation or decreased economic growth. View quote
Martin Feldstein
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience. View quote
Jonas Salk
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. View quote
Jonas Salk
I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know? View quote
Marvin Minsky
(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. View quote
Willie Nelson
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. View quote
John le Carré
Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature. View quote
Chrysippus
We know not through our intellect but through our experience. (Maurice Merleau-Ponty)
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. View quote
Donald Trump
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession. View quote
George Washington
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within - and make the point This can be done. View quote
Abraham Maslow
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. View quote
Angela Carter