Experience quotes

“To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.” William James

“'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

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

“I love that my friends are sometimes even 20, 30 years older than me - that I can just sit and enjoy their company and their experiences.” Kim Kardashian

“But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do. He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?” Stephen King

“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.” John Fitzgerald Kennedy

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” Immanuel Kant

“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.” Immanuel Kant

“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.” Immanuel Kant

“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.” John Locke

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” Clive Staples Lewis

“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

“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.” Henry Miller

“Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.” John Stuart Mill

“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” John Stuart Mill

“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.” John Stuart Mill

“Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.” John Stuart Mill

“My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.” Michelle Obama

“At the end of the day, when it comes time to make that decision, as president, all you have to guide you are your values, and your vision, and the life experiences that make you who you are.” Michelle Obama

“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.” Blaise Pascal

“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

“The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency.” Pope John Paul II

“Freedom. Freedom of religion. Freedom to speak their mind. Freedom to build a life. And yes, freedom to build a business. With their own hands. This is the essence of the American experience.” Mitt Romney

“The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“We pity in others only the those evils which we ourselves have experienced.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Yes, I've been trepanned. That's quite an interesting experience, especially for my brain surgeon, who saw my thoughts flying around in my brain.” Keith Richards

“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” Tony Robbins

“Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.” Tony Robbins

“Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.” Tony Robbins

“I have never experienced anything like walking out onto the stage of an oversold venue and, before the first note is struck, realizing that there is not going to be enough oxygen for all of us.” Henry Rollins