I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way. Joyce Meyer
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. Vincent Van Gogh
My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise. Colin Powell
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. Saint Augustine
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny. Ben Stein
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. Leonardo da Vinci
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. Carl Jung
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. Virginia Woolf
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. Sigmund Freud
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. Bertrand Russell
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. Rainer Maria Rilke
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age. Ambrose Bierce
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. John Stuart Mill
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. Chinua Achebe
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid. P. J. O'Rourke
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. Albert Schweitzer
Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience. Ambrose Bierce
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Benjamin Disraeli