1,005 Quotes Regarding Experience


In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen

If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
William James

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts

If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
Emil Zatopek

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
William James

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.
Laurel Clark

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley

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.
P. J. O'Rourke

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
Hillary Clinton

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.
Denis Waitley

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.
Stephen Fry

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Carl Rogers

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
Milton Berle