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The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, 'What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!' He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it."The prince paused and all waited, expecting him to go on again and finish the story."Is that all?" asked Aglaya."All? Yes," said the prince, emerging from a momentary reverie."And why did you tell us this?""Oh, I happened to recall it, that's all! It fitted into the conversation—""You probably wish to deduce, prince," said Alexandra, "that moments of time cannot be reckoned by money value, and that sometimes five minutes are worth priceless treasures. All this is very praiseworthy; but may I ask about this friend of yours, who told you the terrible experience of his life? He was reprieved, you say; in other words, they did restore to him that 'eternity of days.' What did he do with these riches of time? Did he keep careful account of his minutes?""Oh no, he didn't! I asked him myself. He said that he had not lived a bit as he had intended, and had wasted many, and many a minute.""Very well, then there's an experiment, and the thing is proved; one cannot live and count each moment; say what you like, but one cannot." "That is true," said the prince, "I have thought so myself. And yet, why shouldn't one do it?""You think, then, that you could live more wisely than other people?" said Aglaya."I have had that idea.""And you have it still?""Yes — I have it still," the prince replied.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot
You will learn to make better decisions in life with experience and time.
— Robert Tew
Experience is a master teacher, even when it’s not our own.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
The sacred dimension is not something that you can know through words and ideas any more than you can learn what an apple pie tastes like by eating the recipe. The modern age has forgotten that facts and information, for all their usefulness, are not the same as truth or wisdom, and certainly not the same as direct experience.
— Adyashanti, The Way of Liberation
There is no truth that does not ultimately rest upon what is evident to us in our own experience.
— William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
The energy of youth with the experience of age is a lethal combination.
— Murad S. Shah
I was born with the ability to see in metaphor.
— Mark Nepo, Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred
It is the vice of the journalist, I once wrote, to think that history can always be reduced to experience, and of the scholar to think that experience can always be reduced to history. History and experience are far more frequently out of sync, or running on parallel tracks.
— Adam Gopnik
Experience is the best school,Failures, Mistakes, Embarrassments, and Heartaches are teaching there,Offering only one lesson called Life,That you could only finish once you're dead!
— Nelson M. Lubao
Don't be afraid to live. And hold onto the people you love.
— Nyrae Dawn
Some things we must learn through experience. That is how one truly lives.
— Tony DiTerlizzi, A Hero For WondLa
Enjoy with a care
— Jerin John
Sometimes God let us experience the storm so people who give us importance could calm us down.
— RSCruz
Sometimes translation stops you understanding.
— China Miéville, Embassytown
I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that what was communicated was less a particular poem than the echo of poetic possibility. Insofar as I was interested in the arts, I was interested in the disconnect between my experience of actual artworks and the claims made on their behalf; the closest I'd come to having a profound experience of art was probably the experience of this distance, a profound experience of the absence of profundity.
— Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station
Life is a playground and a laboratory
—  avoid neglecting one for the other.
Old soul." I laughed. "You're Thirty.""It's not the years, it's the experience," he paused.
— Maria V. Snyder, Sea Glass
The world is in me and you are not even in the world yet.
— Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros
The bureaucrat is a man who administers things and people, and who relates himself to people as to things.
— Erich Fromm
Perception of one's life journey does not, always or necessarily, have to be judged as good or bad. It certainly demands that one take responsibility for all aspects of it, however.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
no-one would want to go through a traumatic experience but when you’ve survived something life-shattering and risen above it, you achieve a kind of serenity.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth, Snowfed Waters
Proving himself to himself was no small matter.
— H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
I've been to many beauty salons. No one gave me a certificate.
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Poetry is alive because it is a medium of vision and experience. It is not necessarily comfortable.It is not necessarily safe.
— Lenore Kandel
The benefit of appearing so young is I'm constantly underestimated
— Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass
If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
— John Heywood
We will not read of that which hurts our pride or fears or 'feelings'. We forget, or gloss over, or excuse, an experience which injured the tentacles of our personality. We forget the pscyhiatrist's definition of a neurosis as 'refused pain'. In the same way we escape from mental pain. We refuse to believe what we do not like.
— Christmas Humphreys, The Buddhist Way Of Life
Language is the art of experience
— N A PARNHAM
To march over dead man, to hear without concern the groans of the wounded, I say few men can stand such scenes unless steeled by habit or fortified by military pride.
— Nathanael Greene
Lots of people say that everything that we possess, experience and want; like books, music, films and holidays are all just a big distraction from death. But I think differently. I think it’s the exact order and presence of these trivial things that make life worthwhile and bearable.
— Frieda Robson
You cannot appreciate what you have never experienced. Sadly, full appreciation tends to come only after the experience is past.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
In my experience, the biggest reason people struggle to get where they want to be is guilt. Guilt that they have let someone down, and also guilt that they are about to leave someone they love ...behind.
— Bethany Brookbank, Write like no one is reading
Time can be as fluid as water, and never in the way you'd like; it slows down to a standstill when you wish you could get things over with, and rushes by in a blur when you wish things would last.
— Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
What Walter thinks is that people are like rivers. We never stay in the same place but jest keep flowing along, learning new stuff and picking up new experiences and changing all the time. So today’s you isn’t the same as yesterday’s you and won’t be the same as tomorrow’s you. But Walter also thinks that there’s a real perfect you that you’re always trying to get to, and the better you are at living your life, the closer you come to it.
— Rebecca Rupp
Aspiring novelists should be taught that the old adage, “Write about what you know,” isn’t limited to what you have personally experienced. Vicarious experience is also a great part of what you know. Read a lot of history and it becomes part of your store of knowledge, part of what you’re prepared to write about. The same goes for stories and memories that other people share with you.
— James Carlos Blake
You can't give love when you haven't experienced love.
— Kemi Sogunle
Travel if you wish, taste strange dishes, gather experience in dangerous activities, but see that your soul remains your own. Do not become a stranger to yourself, for you are lost from that day on; you will have no peace if there is not, somewhere within you, a corner of certainty, calm waters where you can take refuge in sleep.
— Albert Memmi
1. Reading becomes knowledge.2. Applying knowledge becomes experience.Most people have done 1 but they forget 2. These people blow too much without effective result.
— CycDemo
It is okay to date and experience all the excitement, thrills, and passion that romance offers, but let the love of your life be yourself.
— Jenna Alatari
It just happens that a lot of us have been through too much that is even too less than our age..and what happens is we cannot but remember it and all we think about is how to make now and after better than before.
— Temitayo A
My Dad once told me: “you will retire only in your grave!” 
—  I wish he is alive to ask him ”when I will retire searching for my grave!
experience is nothing but maturity. maturity is nothing but experience
— narayan raju rolonseals
If you simply love the Universe, the Universe can't help but love you straight back!
— Mary-Ellen Peters
Digest your experiences well and let this nourish the body of your life.
— Mary-Ellen Peters
Stories, whether they're good or bad, are expressions of interactions within society. Some may be seen as 'boring', but in their own right, they are still stories to be explored. People throughout life have more exciting endeavours than others, and that can be the same for stories. It's just a matter of segregating comparisons between the senseless and the thoughtful. The norm and the unbiased. We are what we are. As are stories.
— Corey Dale-Gardener
No one will protect what they don't care about
—  and no one will care about what they have never experiened
Life is a repeated cycle of getting lost and then finding yourself again. There are many smaller cycles within that cycle where you get lost to a smaller degree and then remember yourself again. Sometimes you do it to yourself on purpose, consciously or unconsciously. Every time you get lost it is so that you can learn something or experience something from a different perspective.
— Jay Woodman
I can't imagine it's easy to like someone, hate them, and then lose them before any of those feelings are resolved.
— Veronica Roth, Four: A Divergent Story Collection
Wisdom is the byproduct of lifelong experience and education.
— Debasish Mridha
Art is the expression of appreciation of beauty real or imagined. It's also an examination of what it means to be alive with all its varied things, emotions, and experiences. We are forever trying to explain ourselves to the world or the world to ourselves.
— Jay Woodman
Life is an extraordinary gift some people appear not to appreciate. In every breath and scent, every touch and sight we are gifted by new experience and the chance to feel the richness of experience. Every sound we hear, from the song of a bird to the harshness of an angry voice, is a miracle.
— Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Flashes of Thought
I may not understand your situation but I understand hurt
— Mk.
Those who are attached only to the result of their effort will not have any chance to appreciate it, because the result will never come.
— Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience,” Kirkland said.
— Mary Jo  Putney
You can experience the same thing over and over again but how you feel about it will never be the same as the first.
— Lik Hock Yap Ivan
To enjoy beauty in the company of myself is to experience beauty bound by the limits of the sole person that I am. But, to experience beauty in the company of God is to experience beauty bound by the limits of Who God is, which is to experience beauty without limits.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
We don't want any relationship! we just need someone who listen us, who is ready to do anything for us without saying no. In short we just need one slave!
— sid
If you are present, then you can see that you give yourself presents in each moment that you can unwrap and thoroughly enjoy - the amazing world around us that we can explore, each incredible detail, the lives, and the stories we tell ourselves or experience so that we can feel what it's like to be human, the things we can learn from an interaction, about ourselves as well as everything and everyone else.Everyone is here in their own story, writing the script as they go, living the movie picture.... choosing who to meet, what to do, how to react to each new experience. We each find our own tools to help us traverse the terrain of each particular part of our journeys. It cannot be right to judge another, or yourself, for we are all at different stages, or on different stages. We do as we need to according to where and how we find ourselves, but the more you realise that you actually put yourself exactly where you are in each moment, the more your eyes will widen. You are an amazing Being playing the game of life - your attitude makes all the difference.
— Jay Woodman
Do not confuse your horizon with the edge of the world.
— Seb Paquet
Happiness is not an experience, but the essence of experience.
— Debasish Mridha
Experience is not what happens to you
—  it's what you do with what happens to you.
You wrote something easily in youth, and later you came to see how difficult it all was.
— A.S. Byatt, Angels and Insects
Experience is as to intensity and not as to duration.
— Thomas Hardy
Life experience is the new work experience.
— Richie Norton
Innocence is a bleeding wound without a bandage, a wound that opens with every casual knock from casual passers-by. Experience is an armour.
— Hilary Mantel, Fludd
I call my it "the Book of Paula" or BoP for short. Those are my own opinions, based on experience.
— Paula Heller Garland
Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience. Without integrity, motivation is dangerous; without motivation, capacity is impotent; without capacity, understanding is limited; without understanding, knowledge is meaningless; without knowledge, experience is blind. Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities.
— Dee Hock
As a human being, we are on a continuous journey of self-discovery and experience.
— Miranda J. Barrett, A Woman's Truth: A Life Truly Worth Living
deep inside I know that trying to figure things out leads to blindness, that the desire to understand has a built-in brutality that erases what you seek to comprehend. Only experience is sensitive.
— Peter Høeg
If we want to go Fast than go Alone but if We want to go Far, lets go Together..adopt the "We" spirit..Life isn't all about "Selfie
— Kalon Jackson
Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.
— Craig S. Keener, Gift & Giver: The Holy Spirit for Today
The path to mastery involves being a white-belter till it becomes black from use.
— Malti Bhojwani
Now that I think I know what I'm doing, I'm scared. Before this, I just didn't know any better.
— Lee Marvin
It would not be too strong to say that I felt sane for the first time in my life. And yet the change in my consciousness seemed entirely straightforward. I was simply talking to my friend—about what, I don’t recall—and realized that I had ceased to be concerned about myself. I was no longer anxious, self-critical, guarded by irony, in competition, avoiding embarrassment, ruminating about the past and future, or making any other gesture of thought or attention that separated me from him. I was no longer watching myself through another person’s eyes.
— Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of passion—a passion for discerning what is subjectively real in every moment. It is a mode of cognition that is, above all, undistracted, accepting, and (ultimately) nonconceptual. Being mindful is not a matter of thinking more clearly about experience; it is the act of experiencing more clearly, including the arising of thoughts themselves. Mindfulness is a vivid awareness of whatever is appearing in one’s mind or body—thoughts, sensations, moods—without grasping at the pleasant or recoiling from the unpleasant.
— Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
War becomes a part of you. It is a feeling just as much as an experience. If you can’t feel it, you weren’t paying attention. And if you weren’t paying attention, you are probably dead anyway.
— Clint Van Winkle, Soft Spots: A Marine's Memoir of Combat and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
When you are genuinely preoccupied in serving others using your talent and experience, doors that you have never knocked start to open up...
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
I take account of my life and find that I have lived a lot and learned very little.
— Pat Conroy, South of Broad
Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay.
— Serina Hartwell
Turning an experience about to observe it, results in a lessening of the experience directly proportional to the amount of observation. To think about it is, to some degree, to stop the pleasure, to stop the experience, to step outside it.
— Geoffrey Wood
.the worse experience, the better teacher..
— Kovo
Sufism is known by means of itself.
— Idries Shah, The Sufis
But, nevertheless, the generation that carried on the war has been set apart by its experience. Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Nothing is easier to us who pass our time in the great school of Providence than to l’arn its lessons.
— James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer
Sometimes one doesn't have to be part of the experience to realize and learn from the experience.
— Unarine Ramaru
Careful with what you know and what you experience. Sometimes, closed mouth with memories is better than opened mouth with stories.
— London Casey (Karolyn James), Stripped
If you've experienced half of the things I've passed through in life, you wouldn't underestimate the power of love.
— Ifeanyi Dede
I do not have more information after reading a poem
—  I have more experience.
Live in the present. It won't last too long.
— Murad S. Shah
The triumph of hope over experience.
— Jojo Moyes, One Plus One
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
— Immanuel Kant
You see, the catch about portrait painting—I've looked into the thing a bit— is that you can't startpainting portraits till people come along and ask you to, andthey won't come and ask you to until you've painted a lot first.This makes it kind of difficult for a chappie.
— P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves
You are perceptual beings with different vantage points and - it does not matter how much information is given - you cannot see beyond the vibrational limits of where you are standing. You cannot live or see or experience outside of your own individual beliefs.
— Abraham Hicks
Every experience is seen through your mind's eye, so when you change your mind you change your entire world.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Wisdom is the central form which gives meaning and position to all the facts which are acquired by knowledge, the digestion and assimilation of whatever in the material world the man comes in contact with.
— Northrop Frye, Fearful Symmetry: A Study of William Blake
But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.
— Immanuel Kant
Look in your disappointments for the resolve to transform your experiences into solutions.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substance is so much in doubt. By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.
— John Milton, The History of Britain; That Part Especially Now Called England, from the First Traditional Beginning Continued to the Norman Conquest
Change your state of being and your experience will follow.
— Raphael Zernoff, Being Yourself, Riding the Wave of Change
You never know whether you've already experienced your greatest moment or your worst
— Dean Cavanagh
You will find beauty in every person and experience if beauty has been cultivated within.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
In a materialistic society, an employed boy is older than an unemployed man.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
Neither Peter in his work to include Gentiles in the church nor the abolitionists in their campaign against slavery argued that their experience should take precedence over Scripture. But they both made the case that their experience should cause Christians to reconsider long-held interpretations of Scripture. Today, we are still responsible for testing our beliefs in light of their outcomes—a duty in line with Jesus's teaching about trees and their fruit.
— Matthew Vines, God and the Gay Christian: The Biblical Case in Support of Same-Sex Relationships
The world is full of alluring, flashy and thrilling experiences, which are illusionary traps — they are paths to nowhere.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The Complete Work is essentially dramatic, thought it takes different forms - prose passages in this first volume, poems and philosophies in other volumes. It's the product of the temperament I've been blessed or cursed with - I'm not sure which. All I know is that the author of these lines (I'm not sure if also of these books) has never had just one personality, and has never thought or felt except dramatically - that is, through invented persons, or personalities, who are more capable than he of feeling what's to be felt.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
The potential of your life experience shrinks or expands according to your ability to love.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Experience is based on knowledge, not by years
— Sanjeev Beekeeper
Your complete intelligence is designed to experience the fullness of life, not a narrow omission of its best possibilities.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Those who incessantly underestimate people will one day experience an incident that would make them want to plead everyone they had offended in the world.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
He said that I have to remember that even though I've changed a lot in here, I'm going back to a world that hasn't changed
— Michael Thomas Ford, Suicide Notes
Character is not purchased with a dance in the street. It's expensive and hard to come by. Though it is the heir of disappointment, betrayal and frustration, it is not the inheritance that matters but what you do with it. No one ever developed their character by arranging their experiences in such a way that only ‘good’ things are allowed to happen.
— Billy Marshall Stoneking
The best way for you to get that new experience is to change your response to what happens.
— Chris Prentiss, Zen and the Art of Happiness
Science has made many advances in my lifetime, but the instrument has yet to be invented that can see clearly into the marriage of a man and a woman.
— Guillermo del Toro, The Strain
You have to surrender yourself to the experience.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Artificial Gods
A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.
— Diane Keaton
There is a charm in saying nothing, in saying nothing at all. There is a charm in - experiencing.
— Peter Cave, What's Wrong with Eating People?: 33 More Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles
Your purpose on earth is to participate in this human experience and to seize the opportunity within each day to reveal the greatest version of yourself.
— Steve Maraboli
If not to shape me into a better man; a better husband, a better father, a better son, a better brother, a better friend… then all of my experience, success, and education will have been a selfish waste.
— Steve Maraboli
I thought, you see, that there must be some connection between money and memorable experience; between rare wine and rare intelligence. In short, I was a romantic idiot.
— Jincy Willett, Jenny and the Jaws of Life: Short Stories
Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It's why I prefer solitude to social interaction. - Bethany
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx
Even without a kiss, this moment is perfect, and you wouldn't trade it for anything.
— Jill Santopolo, Summer Love
Well,' said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return once more to London, 'it has been a pretty business for me! I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained?''Experience,' said Holmes, laughing. 'Indirectly it may be of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence.
— Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Engineer's Thumb
Sufism is therefore not 'Do as I say and not as I do', or even 'Do as I do', but 'Experience it and you will know'.
— Idries Shah, A Perfumed Scorpion
Oh, Youth may listen patiently,While sad Experience tells her tale,But Doubt sits smiling in his eye,For ardent Hope will still prevail!He hears how feeble Pleasure dies,By guilt destroyed, and pain and woe;He turns to Hope—and she replies,“Believe it not-it is not so!
— Anne Brontë, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Leaving the world behind is the best experience most feeble minds fear to try.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
You cannot have qualifications without experience
—  and you cannot have experience without personal interest and bias. That may not be an ideal arrangement
Everyday Sun shines for new Experiences
— Samar Sudha
Strive to follow your big dreams. If you fail, cherish the valuable experience gained during the process. There’s always a second time.
— Yatin Patel
Thoughts of harmony allow experiences of harmony.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
I think sometimes we spend so much time trying to find out who we are we lose sight of who we want to be
— Anonymous
Be good. It'll be a new experience.
— Susan Andersen, Be My Baby
Experience can never be undone, or knowledge unlearned.
— Ronald Frame, Havisham
Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!
— Marjane Satrapi
There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
— Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams
The more mistakes I make, the less I judge other people's mistakes
— Bayan Bahi
Only he whose bright lyrehas sounded in shadowsmay, looking onward, restorehis infinite praise. Only he who has eatenpoppies with the deadwill not lose ever againthe gentlest chord.Though the image upon the pooloften grows dim:Know and be still.Inside the Double Worldall voices becomeeternally mild.
— Rainer Maria Rilke, Sonnets to Orpheus
...our free will could convert a curse into a blessing or a blessing into a curse...To transform a crisis into an opportunity was true wisdom
— Radhanath Swami, The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
— English Proverb
...on opening the incubator I experienced one of those rare moments of intense emotion which reward the research worker for all his pains: at first glance I saw that the broth culture, which the night before had been very turbid was perfectly clear: all the bacteria had vanished... as for my agar spread it was devoid of all growth and what caused my emotion was that in a flash I understood: what causes my spots was in fact an invisible microbe, a filterable virus, but a virus parasitic on bacteria. Another thought came to me also, If this is true, the same thing will have probably occurred in the sick man. In his intestine, as in my test-tube, the dysentery bacilli will have dissolved away under the action of their parasite. He should now be cured.
— Félix d'Herelle
Experience doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except "Carry bags underneath your eyes". A real experience comes by "Doing it , Learning from failures and again Doing it .... !" - Satish Kumar Ankala
— Satish Kumar Ankala
Here march the eaters of earth, the swallowers of rain.
— J. Aleksandr Wootton, Forgetting: impressions from the millennial borderland
Imagine a skilled botanist accompanied by someone like myself who is largely ignorant of botany taking part in a field trip into the Australian bush, with the objective of collecting observable facts about the native flora. It is undoubtedly the case that the botanist will be capable of collecting facts that are far more numerous and discerning than those I am able to observe and formulate, and the reason is clear. The botanist has a more elaborate conceptual scheme to exploit than myself, and that is because he or she knows more botany than I do. A knowledge of botany is a prerequisite for the formulation of the observation statements that might constitute its factual basis. Thus, the recording of observable facts requires more than the reception of the stimuli, in the form of light rays, that impinge on the eye. It requires the knowledge of the appropriate conceptual scheme and how to apply it.
— Alan F. Chalmers, What Is This Thing Called Science?
Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience, unless they are still up.
— Ellen Goodman
When your Knowledge is Linked Together it is called Experience.
— Udayveer Singh
A smooth sea never made a skilled marine.
— English Proverb
The faithfulness of the Lord is so great that no mind can comprehend it, no hand can fold it, no mouth can describe it and no experience can compete with it. All that our hearts will need, His hands will provide!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
There are so many mistakes you can learn only by making them yourself. There is no substitute for experience.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Painful experiences are like scars in our minds. Some have healed and been forgotten. Others are there as a reminder of what we have been through…
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
One who be armed with positive force energy may repell negative daggers, walk through the wilderness - and live to tell it.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
They say experience is the best teacher, but I'll be damned if I know what it teaches you.
— Lee Smith, Oral History
The inner story, though the same in essence for all, is always single and unique in each human being, never before lived and never to be repeated.
— Helen M. Luke, The Way of Woman: Awakening the Perennial Feminine
What is lived is what is valued.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
That boy is talented. You don’t develop those gifts in houses or in schools.
— Sara Sheridan, The Blessed And The Damned
There is also hope that even in these days of increasing specialization there is a unity in the human experience.
— Allan McLeod Cormack
Those who have not been stung will hardly fear a bee the same as those who have.
— Sara Sheridan, The Secret Mandarin
Buttercup dried her tears and began to smile. She took a deep breath, heaved a sigh. It was all part of growing up. You got these little quick passions, you blinked, and they were gone. You forgave faults, found perfection, fell madly; then the next day the sun came up and it was over. Chalk it up to experience, old girl, and get on with the morning.
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie. You must experience the truth, not believe it.
— Werner Erhard
I gain with loss. I grow with hurt
— Nawaf Al-Harbi
I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.
— Antonio J. Méndez, Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History
Old ones should respect the energy of youths and youths should respect the experience of old ones.
— Amit Kalantri
For scholars and laymen alike it is not philosophy but active experience in mathematics itself that can alone answer the question: What is mathematics?
— Richard Courant, What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
So there are countless reasons to remain on this Godforsaken planet that was long considered the only world, if for no other reason than to learn the end of our story: what the author of our lives has not yet taken the trouble to finish.
— Filippo Bologna, The Parrots
We are Not a Human Beings having a spiritual experience : we are spiritual beings having a Human Experience !
— Suraj Dahal
Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.
— Anonymous
In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of people who are even less inclined to or capable of crafting compromise or solutions to pressing problems.
— Thomas E. Mann, It's Even Worse Than It Looks: How the American Constitutional System Collided With the Politics of Extremism
If life is a poem, be the poet. If life is a story, be the author. If life is an adventure, be the hero. To live any other way is a waste of this experience we call life.
— Steve Maraboli
Those dear to me took fright for my safety and, perhaps, my sanity. Kings, they explained, do not walk like beggars for hundreds of miles. My response was that if a beggar could managed the feat, then why not a king? Did they think me less capable than a beggar?Sometimes I think that I am. The beggar knows much that the king can only guess. And yet who draws up the codes for begging ordinances? Often I wonder what my experience in life--my easy life following the Desolation, and my current level of comfort--has given me of any true experience to use in making laws. If we had to rely on what we knew, kings would only be of use in creating laws regarding the proper heating of tea and the cushioning of thrones.
— Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
Its always hard to find out that a person you once considered a great friend has completely turned their back on you. Life is full of surprises, some good and some bad. From my experience, bumping into bad ones never gets easier, but you learn to expect it, learn from it, and move on. Thats the only thing we can do... is move on.
— Hilda Yacoubian
You Are Not the Same as Yesterday You Were".
— Behnam Rajabpoor
When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience; the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. The latter falls in love, or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.
— T.S. Eliot
Experience is an author’s most valuable asset
—  experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.
Koschei the Deathless made a face as he tasted the wine. "It is far too sweet. Comrade Stalin fears bitterness and has the tastes of a spoiled princess. I savor bitterness--it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. You, too, must learn to prefer it. After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in abundance.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of our technical calculation to be ultimately concrete and "fundamentally real," while our most intimate experiences are labelled "mere appearance" and something having reality only within the closet of the isolated mind. Suppose however we were to invert this whole scheme, reverse the order in which it assigns abstract and concrete. What is central to our experience, then, need not be peripheral to nature. This sunset now, for example, caught within the network of bare winter branches, seems like a moment of benediction in which the whole of nature collaborates. Why should not these colours and these charging banners of light be as much a part of the universe as the atoms and molecules that make them up? If they were only "in my mind," then I and my mind would no longer be a part of nature. Why should the pulse of life toward beauty and value not be a part of things? Following this path, we do not vainly seek to assemble the living out of configurations of dead stuff, but we descend downwards from more complex to simpler grades of the organic. From humans to trees to rocks; from "higher grade" to "lower grade" organisms. In the universe of energy, any individual thing is a pattern of activity within the flux, and thereby an organism at some level.
— William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization
Why should conversation always be so much more coherent than experience?
— Amy Leach, Things That Are
An insult bestowed on your interior and exterior personality; for causes beyond control, kills you innumerably, till the last breath.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Look at your hand. Its structure does not match the structure of assertions, the structure of facts. Your hand is continuous. Assertions and facts are discontinuous.... You lift your index finger half an inch; it passes through a million facts. Look at the way your hand goes on and on, while the clock ticks, and the sun moves a little further across the sky.
— Michael Frayn, Constructions
Experience speaks differently than Knowledge
— Pawan Mehra
To the rich, the really poor don't know that the level of comfort you experience exist at all, so you see, they don't need your sympathy, and you should not feel guilty, just teach them how to fish.
— Peter Ojo
Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.
— Kōbō Abe, Inter Ice Age 4
You Are Your Own Michelangello Always".
— Behnam Rajabpoor
Who Are We to Tell Anyone What They Can or Can't Do?
— Behnam Rajabpoor
I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.
— Louis C.K.
You can’t help who you fall in love with.
— E.L. Montes, Cautious
Scars are something of a body’s memoir.
— Chris Nicolaisen, The Life and Death of the Ericsons
Shh, listen, don’t be discouraged if you don’t win. It’s a learning process. You’ll get better with each try.
— E.L. Montes, Cautious
Take all of your wasted honorEvery little past frustrationTake all of your so-called problems,Better put 'em in quotations
— John Mayer, John Mayer
There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
— Marquis de Sade
I liked being with the books: they reminded me of how many ways of thinking existed outside my own - how small and fleeting my pulse was when set alongside those ageing spines.
— Joanna Rossiter, The Sea Change
Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.
— Rudolf Carnap, The Unity of Science
We never realize the power of real love unless we witness or experience a transaction, because real love costs.
— Eric Samuel Timm, Static Jedi: The Art of Hearing God Through the Noise
Education. Experience. Or are they the same thing?
— Julian Fellowes, Past Imperfect
The phenomena of nature, especially those that fall under the inspection of the astronomer, are to be viewed, not only with the usual attention to facts as they occur, but with the eye of reason and experience.
— William Herschel
We experience the gods and the wisdom of the universe all in our own way
— Skadi Winter, Hexe
Science is the systematic classification of experience.
— George Henry Lewes, Physical Basis of Mind
When I feel broken, I cry like the monsoons; and when I glue the pieces back together, I swell and surge like the sea. And then I gradually become tranquil, peaceful, calm...
— Subarna Prasad Acharya
I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.
— Felix Bloch
As chemists, we must rename [our] scheme and insert the symbols Ba, La, Ce in place of Ra, Ac, Th. As nuclear chemists closely associated with physics, we cannot yet convince ourselves to make this leap, which contradicts all previous experience in nuclear physics.
— Otto Hahn
Intuition is educated by experience and employed by curiosity.
— Jim Blasingame, The Age of the Customer: Prepare for the Moment of Relevance
Neither technology nor efficiency can acquire more time for you, because time is not a thing you have lost... It is what you live in.
— James Glieck
The years of his life had not been gentle, and there was something untamable about him; his eyes seemed to say everything and nothing at all, almost as if they spoke a dying language few could appreciate or even understand.
— Chris Nicolaisen, The Life and Death of the Ericsons
Basic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.
— A.S.A. Harrison, The Silent Wife
Peace is the way, not the destination.
— Shannon L. Alder
We Were young. He didn't love me. He just thought he did. Simple as that.- Blaire Lynn
— Abbi Glines, Fallen Too Far
Atheism may be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds.
— Madalyn Murray O'Hair
We define love the way we experienced it.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Those who have not lived in New Orleans have missed an incredible, glorious, vital city--a place with an energy unlike anywhere else in the world, a majority-African American city where resistance to white supremacy has cultivated and supported a generous, subversive, and unique culture of vivid beauty. From jazz, blues, and and hip-hop to secondlines, Mardi Gras Indians, jazz funerals, and the citywide tradition of red beans and rice on Monday nights, New Orleans is a place of art and music and food and traditions and sexuality and liberation.
— Jordan Flaherty, Floodlines: Community and Resistance from Katrina to the Jena Six
If you wanna judge it...then you need to expereince it..!
— shakir parekh
Maturity comes with experience, not age.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour, Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
Happiness is a temporary recurring human experience.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
There is a major difference between a scuba diver and a drowning man. One is in control of his experiences, the other is in over his head.
— Laren Grey Umphlett, The Power of Perception
When the business man rebukes the idealism of his office-boy, it is commonly in some such speech as this: "Ah, yes, when one is young, one has these ideals in the abstract and these castles in the air; but in middle age they all break up like clouds, and one comes down to a belief in practical politics, to using the machinery one has and getting on with the world as it is." Thus, at least, venerable and philanthropic old men now in their honoured graves used to talk to me when I was a boy.But since then I have grown up and have discovered that these philanthropic old men were telling lies. What has really happened is exactly the opposite of what they said would happen. They said that I should lose my ideals and begin to believe in the methods of practical politicians. Now, I have not lost my ideals in the least; my faith in fundamentals is exactly what it always was. What I have lost is my old childlike faith in practical politics. I am still as much concerned as ever about the Battle of Armageddon; but I am not so much concerned about the General Election. As a babe I leapt up on my mother's knee at the mere mention of it. No; the vision is always solid and reliable. The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud. As much as I ever did, more than I ever did, I believe in Liberalism. But there was a rosy time of innocence when I believed in Liberals.
— G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine.
— Idries Shah, Neglected Aspects of Sufi Study
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
— Wallis Duchess of Windsor
For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.
— S.R. Ford, Mimgardr
...you got tuh go there tuh know there.
— Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
What the soul sees and has experienced, that it knows; the rest is appearance, prejudice and opinion.
— Sri Aurobindo
Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced.
— Hugo von Hofmannsthal
As a doc, though, I've seen what happens when people are under a lot of stress. Doesn't always bring out their best. When people are scared, they get angry. They'll do things they never thought they would. They'll bargain and compromise in order to survive; they'll chase after miracle cures and believe just about anything so long as it gives them hope. When hope fails, then watch out. Some people get brutal. They'll turn on each other; they'll become their own worst enemies.
— Ilsa J. Bick, Ashes
every lord was a servant and every servant will be a lord.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
... in moments of crisis our thoughts do not run consecutively but rather sweep over us in waves or intuition and experience ...
— John le Carré, The Russia House