Quotessence
Home / Topics / Experience Quotes

Experience Quotes

Browse 2754 quotes about Experience.

Related topics

LifeIfsInspirationalThinkingMenLearningWorldPeopleWayKnowsScienceLife ExperienceHumansWantHuman ExperienceYearsGivingTeachFirstsNeedsMayPastRealArtLoveMindShouldLittlesMomentsUnderstandingKnowledgeTeacherLessonsLife IsPersonsWisdomHappensLongMotivationalDoeHas BeensImportantWritingIdeasMeanActionExperimentsFactsFeelingsPainSpiritualTryingAgeBelieveHandsHeartKindMadeRealityWiseEducationLooksBusinessCertainDoneEventsFeelsFunnyMistakeSeemsSelfSufferingWholeEducationalLiteratureNatureSuccessTwoDirectFailureHappinessIndividualJoyLastsLyingPersonal ExperiencesReligiousResultsConsciousnessCoursesDesignDesireDifferentEndsInspirationObservationPast ExperiencesProcessReasonSometimesmore

Experience Quotes

“You can believe what you've been told. You can imagine in vivid detail the things explained to you. You may even feel emotions assumed to accompany the related experience. But you absolutely cannot know something with any real degree of understanding until you've personally walked the road yourself.”

LifeUnderstandingKnowledgeGrowing UpLearningLivingPerceptionEnlightenmentExperienceAppreciationTrialsRichelle GoodrichRichelleDiscoverGraspDigest
Book:Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
Create image

“Occasionally, events in one's life become clearer through the prism of experience, a phrase which simply means that things tend to be clearer as time goes on. For instance, when a person is just born, they usually have no idea what curtains are and spend a great deal of their first months wondering why on earth Mommy and Daddy have hung large pieces of cloth over each window in the nursery. But as the person grows older, the idea of curtains becomes clearer through the prism of experience. The person will learn the word "curtains" and notice that they are actually quite handy for keeping a room dark when it is time to sleep, and for decorating an otherwise boring window area. Eventually, they will entirely accept the idea of curtains of their own, or venetian blinds, and it is all due to the prism of experience.”

LifeTimeGrowthChangeGrowing UpClearExperienceCurtainsIdeaLemony SnicketA Series Of Unfortunate EventsPrismThe Austere AcademyPrism Of Experience
Book:The Austere Academy
Create image

“There have been times I cannot hide, There have been times when this was drear, When my sad soul forgot its pride And longed for one to love me here. But those were in the early glow Of feelings since subdued by care; And they have died so long ago, I hardly now believe they were. First melted off the hope of youth, Then fancy’s rainbow fast withdrew; And then experience told me truth In mortal bosoms never grew. ’Twas grief enough to think mankind All hollow, servile, insincere; But worse to trust to my own mind And find the same corruption there.”

LoveTruthPoetryHopeGrowthPrideIntegrityExperienceNumbness
Book:The Complete Poems
Create image

“Meanwhile, the old fig tree stood in the middle of the field alone and naked, resisting the cold and the winds of winter while its solid trunk stood motionless like a tower, its roots burrowed deep in the earth. "Had I been an artist I would have painted a natural tableau of the white field and the fig tree," he told himself, contemplating the beauty of nature before him, focusing on the tree. "We are like you. You sink your roots in the ground, you absorb water from now till spring when its time for you to sprout leaves and bear fruit. You have to be patient for time to take its course. Like you , we have been sinking our roots into the soil of the people for years and years. We suck up the people's rich, revolutionary experience. One day our leaves will sprout and our fruit will bud. Everything is good in its time. Our people's wisdom says so. Look, our leaves have already started sprouting. The time will come for us to harvest the fruit of our revolutionary action, so that the workers and those struggling will rule over their homeland.”

WisdomGrowthExperienceLiberationPalestine
Book:The Trinity of Fundamentals
Create image

“We are great fools. 'He has spent his life in idleness,' we say, and 'I have done nothing today.' What! have you not lived? That is not only the fundamental, but the most noble of your occupations. 'If I had been put in charge of some great affair, I might have shown what I could do.' Have you been able to reflect on your life and control it? Then you have performed the greatest work of all. To reveal herself and do her work, nature has no need of fortune. She manifests herself equally at all levels, and behind curtains as well as in the open. Our duty is to compose our character, not to compose books, to win not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live properly. All other things -- to reign, to lay up treasure, to build -- are at best but little aids and additions.”

CharacterAmbitionExperienceIdlenessOn Experience
Author:Montaigne
Create image

“A mentor is a person, an expert in a specific area of endeavour who trains, guides and observes a less experienced person to also become an expert through support, advice, and involvement in character building opportunities.”

CharacterSupportTeachingAdviceExperienceFood For ThoughtIsraelmore AyivorPersonal DevelopmentOpportunitiesMentorInvolvementMotivational SpeakerGuideMentorsObserveModelTrainerAmateurProNoviceExpects
Book:Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers
Create image

“Nothing matures a Man like RESPONSIBILITIES, Nothing humbles him like MISSED OPPORTUNITIES, What makes him are his CHOICES, And nothing changes him like LOVE. Nothing defines a Man like his CHARACTER, Nothing teaches him like his EXPERIENCE, What drives him is his VISION, And nothing weakens him like BETRAYAL. Nothing scares a Man like losing his EGO, Nothing pursues him like his PASSION, What interests him is his GAME, And nothing intoxicates him like his DESIRES. But above all, NOTHING FAVOURS A MAN LIKE FINDING A GOOD WOMAN.”

LoveInspirationalCharacterMotivationalDesireChoicesPassionOpportunityResponsibilityVisionBlessingEgoExperienceBetrayalGoodManWomanFavourGame
Book:The Soldier Within
Create image

“NASA has decades of experience in studying the effects of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) and their experiments show that continuous habitation of an alien environment in Space results in sickness in less than a year in astronauts and a similar environment on Earth produces ill health in humans in just two years.”

HumansEarthSpaceResultsEnvironmentEffectsBuildingHealthExperienceSickIllExperimentsSicknessAlienShowYearStudyingTheirSimilarContinuousSyndromeHabitationSbsNasa Decades
Author:Steven Magee
Create image

“Dr. Morris soon recognized that the difference between successful and unsuccessful marriages can often be traced to how well couples are able to "bond" during the courtship period. By bonding he referred to the process by which a man and woman become cemented together emotionally. It describes the chemistry that permits two previous strangers to become intensely valuable to one another. It helps them weather the storms of life and remain committed in sickness and health, for richer or poorer, for better or worse, forsaking all others until they are parted in death. It is a phenomenal experience that almost defies description.”

LifeTwoTogetherDeathProcessMarriageSuccessfulHealthExperienceCommittedValuableStormWeatherManWomanSicknessDescriptionChemistryHelpCouplesBetterPhenomenalStrangersCourtshipBondUnsuccessfulBecomeWorseRemainOrMarriage VowsRicherEmotionallyOne AnotherPartedPoorerDefiesIntenselyDr MorrisPermitsCementedForsaking
Author:James Dobson
Create image

“Much of our suffering is caused by our false perceptions and attachment to mental images. We assume things to be true without really knowing whether they are true or not, then create a world of hurt for ourselves and others.”

LoveLifeTruthHappinessSpiritFearPeaceUnderstandingExistenceConsciousnessKnowledgeAwarenessExperienceInner PeaceOnenessBlissStillness
Book:Stillness: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Peace
Create image

“Many people have failing relationships because they have not really fallen in love with each other, but they have fallen for the mental images they have created of one another. We assume we know our partner, we think about them nonstop, creating many different ideas of who they are, what they like, and how we will be together, then as soon as our partner does something that doesn’t fit with our mental image of them, we become sad, upset, confused, or heart broken. Our partner did not cause our suffering; we caused it, through our false perceptions and mental images.”

LoveLifeTruthHappinessSpiritFearPeaceUnderstandingExistenceConsciousnessKnowledgeAwarenessExperienceInner PeaceOnenessBlissStillness
Book:Stillness: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Peace
Create image

“When we think of something, we create a mental image of it, and our image is then always filtered through our mental perception. We may meet someone one day when they are in a bad mood, we then make a false assumption that this person does not like us. We have created an image of this person, and now every time we meet them, we associate this person with our negative mental image of them. We don’t interact with them as they are in this moment; we interact with how we think they are.”

LoveLifeTruthHappinessSpiritUniverseFearPeaceUnderstandingExistenceConsciousnessKnowledgeAwarenessPerceptionExperienceInner PeaceOnenessBlissStillness
Book:Stillness: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Peace
Create image

“We spend so much of our time lost in thought, trying to label everything as isolated objects and events. Though we fail to realize that our thoughts are incapable of defining anything in its totality. We can think about a situation for as long as we want to, but our thoughts will never know the situation exactly as it exists.”

LoveLifeTruthHappinessSpiritUniverseFearPeaceUnderstandingExistenceConsciousnessKnowledgeAwarenessExperienceInner PeaceOnenessBlissStillness
Book:Stillness: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Peace
Create image

“The majority of people in modern society feel separated—from the world, each other, and themselves. This feeling of separation is a resultfrom we humans attempting to separate ourselves from nature, and consequently forgetting who we really are.”

LoveLifeTruthHappinessSpiritFearPeaceUnderstandingExistenceConsciousnessKnowledgeAwarenessExperienceInner PeaceOnenessBlissStillness
Book:Stillness: A Guide to Finding Your Inner Peace
Create image