Top 1200 Wisdom And Experience Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble, keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.

Part of what being involved in the psychedelic experience is about is reclaiming your own experience.

Whenever we experience an event, whether we're visiting the dentist or taking a dream vacation, our consciousness registers that experience internally on a spectrum with great pain at one end and extreme pleasure at the other. Once completed, the memory of that experience is tagged to either pain or pleasure, and it continues to exist in our bodymind.

Yes, I played inside the Taj Mahal, but the experience was also a quiet, inner experience.

You can't go to the pharmacy to buy a pack of experience, you have to be in those games in order to acquire that experience.

To me, the psychedelic experience is the experience of trying to make sense of reality.

Any entertainer who tells you that the adoration of fans is not a heady experience probably never had the experience.

Realty exists only through experience, and it must be personal experience.

I try to write into the heart of experience. Then, through the experience of the writing, that heart reveals itself to me. To write it down for others, as a door to go through it they choose, is the price of the experience, the price of the ticket. This is the demand that God, if you like, puts on you for being an artist.

Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow. A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be.

It's interesting in the recruiting process because I have recruits and parents that say, 'You're so positive about the other schools!' And I am, because I had a great experience at LSU. I had a great experience at Auburn. I had a great experience at Florida.

Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them.

The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no mind. Intelligence arises out of no-mind, idiocy out of the mind. Mind is idiotic, no-mind is wise. No-mind is wisdom, intelligence. Mind depends on knowledge, on methods, on money, on experience, on this and that. Mind always needs props, it needs supports, it cannot exist on its own. On its own, it flops.

Experience is the great teacher; unfortunately, experience leaves mental scars, and scar tissue contracts.

Experience is invaluable. I can't express enough how much experience in this sport has helped me as a driver.

In my limited experience, you have to make your own decisions in life and experience things for yourself.

But there are still many who continue to marvel at the wisdom of God in so planning the universe that big rivers run by great towns, and that death comes at the end of life instead of in the middle of it. Divest pleas ... of their semi-philosophic jargon, reduce his illustrations to homely similes, and he is marvelling at the wisdom of God who so planned things that the two extremities of a piece of wood should come at the ends instead of in the middle.

Man needs to be Saved from his own Wisdom as much as from his own Righteousness, for they produce one and the same corruption. Nothing saves a man from his own righteousness, but that which delivers him from his own wisdom.

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

There's something special for everyone to do. Remember, no experience is a bad experience unless you gain nothing from it.

I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.

The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.

The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.

From every life experience, fighting experience, I took the right lessons.

I learned that good judgment comes from experience and that experience grows out of mistakes.

Strut' was an amazing experience, but it was also a learning experience, because reality TV can be crazy.

Just because you have experience driving doesn't necessarily mean you have experience teaching how to drive.

I haven't had vast amounts of ministerial experience - in fact, none at all. But I do have a lot of experience of people.

in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.

One of the great currents in the contemporary experience of art is that it seems to come out of the experience of the author.

A single photograph is a mere fragment of an experience and, simultaneously, the distillation of the entire body of one's experience.

I mean the most important thing you can have as an actor, writer, director, or whatever you are, poet or whatever it is, is life experience. Life experience doesn't mean you have to live 50 years to have it. I mean you know a lot of people have huge life experience by the time they're in college.

When you have a year of experience and also the experience of playing in the playoffs, it just makes a world of difference.

To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.

The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.

When you're facing all the issues of life and you don't know what to do, accept the fact that you are human. We all are. We don't have the capacity to understand Almighty God. But you know what? We know Jesus Christ. He's the wisdom of God. And He put His Holy Spirit in us. So having access to the Holy Spirit and Jesus, we can face the challenges of today with the wisdom of God.

A nation orients itself by its own geniuses, and derives from them its ideas of its own ideals, but the guiding star serves also as a light to other nations. As speech has been created by a few great men, the most extraordinary wisdom lies concealed in it, a wisdom which reveals itself to a few ardent explorers but which is usually overlooked by the stupid professional philologists.

The Pilgrims didn't have any experience when they landed here. Hell, if experience was that important, we'd never have anybody walking on the moon.

People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior wisdom to the masses. What's more, they believe they've been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider good reasons for doing so, but every tyrant that has ever existed has had what he believed were good reasons for restricting the liberty of others.

Your nervous system cannot tell the difference between an imagined experience and a ‘real’ experience.

Yet everybody's experience is really interesting. Or, if not their experience, then their unlived life. Or their desire. Their id. Their curiosity.

Poetry comes out of an elite experience, the experience of people whose ears are opened to the song of the universe.

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

Take every failure as an experience, cause to be successful you need experience.

I grew up Catholic, so the more non-denominational Christian experience was a new experience for me.

You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.

Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.

You can't un-have an experience. You can deny the experience; you can process it and try to get through it, but you can't change the fact that it happened to you.

I’ll tell you the secret to good teaching: make possible an experience without predetermining what that experience will be.

It is in the whole process of meeting and solving problems that life has meaning. Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and our wisdom. It is only because of problems that we grow mentally and spiritually. It is through the pain of confronting and resolving problems that we learn.

Fun is to experience things you would not have been able to experience in any other setting.

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

The prism through which you experience life is so unique. There is no objective experience.

Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.

Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.

The child can only develop fully by means of experience in his environment. We call such experience 'work'.