Experience quotes

“DOS is ugly and interferes with users' experience.” Bill Gates

“The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.” Milton Friedman

“But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.” Richard Dawkins

“An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet.” James Dean

“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

“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.” William Blake

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

“Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.” Francis Bacon

“Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.” Francis Bacon

“It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.” David Bowie

“Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.” Ayrton Senna

“Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.” Charles Stanley

“When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.” Charles Stanley

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.” John Steinbeck

“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

“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

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

“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.” Donald Trump

“I have been to the Occupied Palestinian Territory, and I have witnessed the racially segregated roads and housing that reminded me so much of the conditions we experienced in South Africa under the racist system of Apartheid.” Desmond Tutu

“I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.” Oprah Winfrey

“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

“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

“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

“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” Ansel Adams

“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.” Ansel Adams

“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

“Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.” Ambrose Bierce