Experience Quotes

Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'

Every opportunity I got, I took it as a learning experience.

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

A philosophy of freedom must set out from the experience of thinking, for it is through this experience of thinking that a human being discovers his own self, finds his bearings as an independent personality.

A memoir takes some particular threads, some incidents, some experience from a person's life and gives an account of it.

The importance of art is in the process of doing it, in the learning experience where the artist interacts with whatever is being made.

As it stands, motherhood is a sort of wilderness through which each woman hacks her way, part martyr, part pioneer; a turn of events from which some women derive feelings of heroism, while others experience a sense of exile from the world they knew.

As women, we may not be a minority, but there is a bond that we all share. It is not a bond of geography. Or religion. Or culture. It is a bond of shared experience - experiences that only women go through and struggles that only women face.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

I wanted to escape Small Town U.S.A. To dismiss the boundaries, to explore. My life experience came from watching movies, TV, and reading books and magazines. When your culture comes from watching TV everyday, you're bombarded with images of things that seem cool, places that seem interesting, people who have jobs and careers and opportunities.

I think that music, being an expression of the human heart, or of the human being itself, does express just what is happening - the whole of human experience at the particular time that it is being expressed.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.

I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

Missionary work has never been easy, and yet the joyful rewards cannot be equaled by any other experience.