Top 1200 Wisdom Experience Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience.

When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.

You're always looking to have a unique experience as an actor, and definitely, being punched by a puppet ranks as a singular experience in my career.

What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.

The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.

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.

The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

It is true that neither the ancient wisdoms nor the modern sciences are complete in themselves. They do not stand alone. They call for one another. Wisdom without science is unable to penetrate the full sapiential meaning of the created and the material cosmos. Science without wisdom leaves man enslaved to a world of unrelated objects in which there is no way of discovering (or creating) order and deep significance in man's own pointless existence. (p. 4)

I just use every experience I go through as a learning experience so I can better myself and get in position on what I want to do.

We can learn to trust ourselves by inquiring within. To practice doing this, sit quietly, close your eyes, and for a minute focus your attention on your breathing. Gently visualize your inner wisdom as a graceful butterfly. Admire her beauty, and encourage your butterfly to sit on your shoulder and whisper her wisdom in your ear. Be still and listen.

At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

As we said in the preface to the first edition, C "wears well as one's experience with it grows." With a decade more experience, we still feel that way.

Music is such an incredibly affecting part of any movie-going experience, and it just... it shapes your whole experience.

We do not experience things as they really are! We experience things only through a filter and that filter determines what information will enter our awareness and what will be rejected. If we change the filter (our belief system), then we automatically experience the world in a completely different way.

Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.

I think that when people download the record they're kind of missing out on part of the experience, because it's really meant to be an immersive experience.

Human beings are born to experience pure love, and they never get it. They are searching to experience it from birth until death.

To me the arcade experience is the ultimate gaming experience.

I think it is best to let the experience you have with a teacher direct itself, Instead of trying to make the experience into what you might like it to be. Leave it alone!

Many grievers experience intense yearning or longing after a death - more than they experience, say, denial.

For American philo-Semites, the Jewish experience wasn't just one minority experience among many, but a signal and elevated case.

Every child is so different. Their experience growing up and their experience relating to the world has so much to do with their temperament, and their likes and their dislikes.

We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh... it was a positive experience.

We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience

The experience of reading is very interesting because you put yourself in the character's shoes and everything they're discovering, you marry the experience.

Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen.

Science fiction is like a blender - you can put in any historical experience and take influences from everything you see, read or experience.

The arts enable us to have experience we can have from no other source and through such experience to discover the range and variety of what we are capable of feeling.

Whenever there's the experience of a broken heart, there's the experience of fear.

I think there's data, and then there's information that comes from data, and then there's knowledge that comes from information. And then, after knowledge, there is wisdom. I am interested in how to get from data to wisdom.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.

I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.

The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

The truth we have to face about the world we live in is that it's driven by profit, and contradictions and doubts are not profitable. They yield wisdom, but wisdom is not profitable. I find pleasure in doubt, but let's face it, my pleasure is not very profitable. To me, the truth is that things mean many things at once, and all of them opposed to each other, and all of them true.

I turn to history not for lessons but to confront my experience with the experience of others and to win for myself a sense of responsibility for the state of the human conscience.

Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)

Ecstasy should not be viewed as an unusual experience, but rather a natural experience - feeling all of the living matrix of existence around us.

This is a huge decision [to choose advisers and Secretary of State]. This is where he [Donald Trump] has the least experience and will have to rely on people with experience.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

The central problem of an education based upon experience is to select the kind of present experience that live fruitfully and creatively in subsequent experiences.

Inner success is the ongoing experience of love, happiness, fulfillment and well-being - the experience of joy in your everyday life.

At least for me personally, drugs aren't an essential part of having a surreal experience, or what you might call a higher experience.

I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.

God is not a person; God is manifestation itself. We think that God is a superhuman person, but God is not a person. He is not a subject. We can never experience God in a subject/object experience. God is what makes a subject/object experience possible. We can never see God or experience God as separate from ourselves. God is a being but there is no division.

We are here for experience, and experience is a preparation to know the Truth when we meet it.

The most beautiful experience in the world is the experience of the mysterious.

Early experience shapes the structure and function of the brain. This reveals the fundamental way in which gene expression is determined by experience.

I think that is what you want to do as a cinemagoer - to experience something fully. Some things don't let you experience them fully. It may be your own preordained prejudice where you can't experience them fully. But when you come out of the cinema having felt, thought, and experienced your way through two hours, that is a really cool thing.

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

My experience working with a major label was not all bad, I was blessed to go through that experience, and I know what to do during the next time around.

When my boy arrived in this life, on this planet, it was completely a new dimension of experience for me and my wife. I'm still riding on the wave of that experience.