Experience Quotes

It is the experience of living that is important, not searching for meaning. We bring meaning by how we love the world

Bernie S. Siegel

You don't know what unconditional love is. You may say you do, but if you don't have a child, you don't know what that is. But when you experience it, it is the most fulfilling ever.

Regina King

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.

Jim Garrison

I have relationships with people I'm working with, based on our combined interest. It doesn't make the relationship any less sincere, but it does give it a focus that may not last beyond the experience.

Harrison Ford

To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.

Paulo Coelho

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Oscar Wilde

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Friedrich Nietzsche

People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.

John Hodgman

The sky is the limit. You never have the same experience twice.

Frank McCourt

Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one consciously, by means of certain external symbols, conveys to others the feelings one has experienced, whereby people so infected by these feelings, also experience them.

Leo Tolstoy

The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses.

Ernst Mach

I hope the readers of this book may experience the same benevolent and elevating feeling which I have experienced when I was working on its creation, and which I experience again and again, when I reread it every day, working on the enlargement and improvement of the previous edition.

Leo Tolstoy

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

Victoria Holt

People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.

Laurieann Gibson

My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

Jamie Foxx

Poets treat their experiences shamelessly; they exploit them

Friedrich Nietzsche

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

Peter De Vries

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.

Carlos Fuentes

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.

Ani DiFranco