Experience Quotes - Page 17

To get to forgiveness, we first have to work through the painful experiences that require it.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

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Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time.

Experience makes us wise.

Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

Life experience makes the best music. That's the thing that nobody else can offer. Nobody else can offer my life. I have a life that is fit for movies, music, and so forth. Nobody else can give that.

When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth.

I won't hold my opponent's youth and inexperience against him.

What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting.

As a job seeker, remember this: You only lack experience if they want it done the same old way.

Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations.

If an artist has no experience before he makes a painting or a sculpture, he is not an artist.

Experience is the universal mother of sciences.

We took advantage of [the Indians'] ignorance and inexperience to incline them the more easily toward treachery, lewdness, avarice, and every sort of inhumanity and cruelty, after the example and pattern of our ways.

We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well timed,' according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'

It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your future.

One Taste is not some experience you bring about through effort; rather, it is the actual condition of all experience before you do anything to it. This uncontrived state is prior to effort, prior to grasping, prior to avoiding. It is the real world before you do anything to it, including the effort to "see it nondually".

If you are tired of living on the beaten path that everyone else walks, venture into the woods. Some people would be afraid they would get lost, but a confident woman expects to have a new experience that might be outrageously wonderful.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.