Experience Quotes

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion, and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this, just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

Well I think all I would say on that is, when we were in opposition in Britain and Hawke and then Keating were in power here, Labor was in power here, we learnt a huge amount from the ALP's experience here.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

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

The second is that the role of China trade in Japanese economy, important as it is, has often been exaggerated, as proven by our experience of the past 6 years.

Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.

On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.

It's always an interesting experience for a politician to be heard in silence, I have to say.

I've decided to retire from top class racing. It has been an incredible experience and has provided with me some unforgettable moments.

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Not that the propositions of geometry are only approximately true, but that they remain absolutely true in regard to that Euclidean space which has been so long regarded as being the physical space of our experience.

Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.

All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me.

I don't think as a creator that I could create an experience that truly feels interactive if you don't have something to hold in your hand, if you don't have something like force feedback that you can feel from the controller.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.

I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.