Quotes on Experience

And so you're afraid of the emptiness of your friend's life. But there's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, I tell you. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal.

Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.

The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension.

The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.

Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

Your biggest opportunity probably lies under your own feet, in your current job, industry, education, experience or interests.

Gardening is a labour full of tranquility and satisfaction; natural and instructive, and as such contributes to the most serious contemplation, experience, health and longevity.

When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things.