Experience Quotes

We measure our reality according to our experience. As our experience expands, our reality is also altered.

I never like to say that I 'believe' anything. There are no ideas worth believing.

Can you really explain to a fish what it's like to walk on land? One day on land is worth a thousand years of talking about it, and one day running a business has exactly the same kind of value.

One faces the future with one's past.

Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.

The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy (science); for it neither relies solely or chiefly on the powers of the mind, nor does it take the matter which it gathers from natural history and mechanical experiments and lay up in the memory whole, as it finds it, but lays it up in the understanding altered and disgested. Therefore, from a closer and purer league between these two faculties, the experimental and the rational (such as has never been made), much may be hoped.

Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

I am less selfish. But I am more insistent on being part of the creative experience. I find I am a better mother, lover and wife when I am writing. When my daughter was small I wasn't writing as much and I didn't miss it.

There are so many ways of judging an experience. I tend to be a gatherer, so I don't reject experiences, I embrace them all.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

Performing is the most important single action in my life. It is a unique experience of hard work-elation and disappointment. Every move is an experiment in building up a successful repertoire.

Everybody feels like it was the end of an era. The things that they wrote about very much came from their family experience and their heart.

Acting is a life experience. I'm always learning things when I'm making a movie. So the fame part of it is fine when you consider what you get out of this job.

Working in the studio is a more personal experience whereas on stage in front of a billion people, it's more exciting performing live.

I have experience seducing nephews.

I haven't met Heath but I really look forward to a good beer and a sit-down because I'm sure we could compare a bunch of notes after this experience.

I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me.