Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners. Eric Hoffer on experience
As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified. Jack Kevorkian on experience
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. Jim Horning on experience
Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them. George Santayana on experience
The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. George Santayana on experience
Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. George Santayana on experience
Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception. Alan Moore on experience
Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. Virginia Woolf on experience
It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams. Les Brown on experience
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. Walter Benjamin on experience
Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn. Steve Martin on experience
Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. Henry James on experience
All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions. Bodhidharma on experience
Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius. George Sand on experience
Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers. Billy Joel on experience
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. Immanuel Kant on experience
It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. Christy Turlington on experience
What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. David Hockney on experience
You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience. J. K. Rowling on experience
At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality. Princess Masako on experience