Top 1200 Common Experience Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

This is what they all come to who exclusively harp on experience. They do not stop to consider that experience is only one half of experience.

...assume that art begins in unhappiness. True, the goal of art is to convey a vision of coherence and peace, but the effort to develop that vision starts in the more common experience of confusion and pain.

When aristocrats pretend they're common people -- they get common!

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing.

What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others.

It is a fact beyond question that there are two kinds of Christian experience, one of which is an experience of bondage, and the other an experience of liberty.

You can't be common, the common man goes nowhere; you have to be uncommon

What I had been taught all my life was not true: experience is not the best teacher! Some people learn and grow as a result of their experience; some people don't. Everybody has some kind of experience. It's what you do with that experience that matters.

When you assume responsibility for what you experience and share what you experience in a spirit of companionship, that is the same as forgiveness. When you hold someone responsible for what you experience, you lose power.

In this world laws are written for the lofty aim of "the common good" and then acted out in life on the basis of the common greed.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

We define family in many different ways: not just by blood but by people with whom we find a common ground and a common bond.

There now exists a factor which was formerly lacking - the spirit of the nation has been aroused, and a common misfortune, a common debasement, has united all the inhabitants of the Islands.

If a society does not wage a common struggle to attain a common goal with its women and men, scientifically there is no way for it to become civilized or developed.

Our common liberty is consecrated by a common sorrow.

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.

Common sense is not always common practice.

I make a list of what I have in common, and what I don't have in common, with someone I'm playing

My experience has to be funnelled through a black experience or a white experience, or it doesn't exist, because that's how we're going to deal with the world.

For me, intuition comes from experience. After years of experience, a person will have, if they have been paying attention and revising their thinking and behavior, intuitions about their area of experience.

I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to doubt it.

The only behaviour that is truly common is to avoid doing something because you think others might consider it common.

At Ford Motor Company, we believe the arts speak a common language that weaves a common thread among all people.

Americans are a quarter of a billion people who have almost nothing in common except for the fact they've been told they have lots in common.

Hillary Clinton's got experience, but it's bad experience. And America can't afford to have another four years of that kind of experience.

The common person fears to think beyond the common.

Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?

I've got cabinet experience, military experience, and private sector experience.

What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody; you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project.

We may experience moments of profound inner peace, a sense of oneness with nature, or a sense of something that is more important that we're not reaching by the usual goals of human society. Perhaps we could say there's a common heart to all the religions.

Sympathy relies on a common experience. If you're clumsy, you might have sympathy for others who tend to bump into things. Empathy, on the other hand, is the ability to understand another person's feelings even if you've never experienced them yourself.

Common sense needs to be more common.

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common.

You know, you get famous and you work in these weird jobs and you don't have a lot in common with people. But once you have kids, you have everything in common with everybody.

I have had such a unique experience in the game. I got to experience the best of my craft, and I did that multiple times. There is nothing more I wish I could experience.

Even if it's just a little thing, something like a song, there's still that sort of common language, that common denominator that we can all relate to.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.

The problem with the common person is that he is so unbearably common!

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art-- What dreams have these to hide from death!

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

God created the universe in such a manner that all in common might derive their food from it, and that the Earth should also be a property common to all.

I know from firsthand experience that claims of non-existent voter fraud are used to raise fears, steamroll facts, and overcome common sense, resulting in laws that have nothing to do with ballot security and everything to do with voter suppression and discrimination.

The experience of yoga is unspeakable. It's the experience of samadhi. It's the experience of connectedness, of oneness, boundlessness, merging with God consciousness... even if it's just for an instant.

When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a great career and feel that he has been called to no common destiny. But this is a delusion which experience quickly corrects.

It's called common sense, but it's not common. Most people don't have it.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Islam undoubtedly deserves respect. It has some things in common with Christianity, such as Abraham as a common progenitor, and the belief in only one God.

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

I know Barack Obama. And I believe that as president, he'll pursue the common good by seeking common ground rather than trying to divide us.

Dictators long ago found out it is easier to unite people in common hatred than common love.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

There is one common flow, one common breathing, all things are in sympathy.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.