Quotes on Experience

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.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

White privilege is the unquestioned and unearned set of advantages, entitlements benefits and choices bestowed on people solely because they are white. Generally white people who experience such privilege do so without being conscious of it.

Everything is falling together perfectly, even though it looks as if some things are falling apart. Trust in the process you are now experiencing.

Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

When you are in hard labor, remember that the length of labor is usually proportional to the number of people around. Avoid the presence of anybody who might release adrenaline. The best situation I know for an easy birth is when there is nobody else around than an experienced, motherly and silent midwife who does not behave like a guide or an observer.

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.

Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.

Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.

Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.

You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.

Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity.

I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get. When I say 'goodies', I don't mean only material things. I mean all the people, places and experiences that make life so wonderfully worth living.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Let your love propel your beloveds into the world-and into the full experience of who they are. In this will you have truly loved.