Experience Quotes

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

Curt Siodmak

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Benjamin Disraeli

Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.

C.S. Lewis

I feel like if I won an award and I was giving my speech and the music started, that's all I'd remember, the humiliation I felt when the music started. It would mar the entire experience for me.

Seth Rogen

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

Samuel Butler

A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.

Carly Fiorina

To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.

Christopher Hitchens

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

Diablo Cody

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.

Richard M. Nixon

Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.

James Baldwin

Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it.

James Baldwin

Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

If what happens does not make us richer, we must welcome it if it makes us wiser.

Johnson

There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.

Charles Ives

You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world.

Vicente Fox

When I'm writing, I'm trying to immerse myself in the chaos of an emotional experience, rather than separate myself from it and look back at it from a distance with clarity and tell it as a story. Because that's how life is lived, you know?

Charlie Kaufman

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Charles Dickens

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

M. Scott Peck

Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Cleveland Amory

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty d--n good.

Woody Allen