Experience Quotes - Page 7

Beware of ignorance when in motion; look out for inexperience when in action, and beware of the majority when mentally poisoned with misinformation, for collective ignorance does not become wisdom.

Power is knowing your past.

Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.

You can either ask the question or experience the answer.

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

I did not know it was possible to be so miserable and live but I am told that this is a common experience.

I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads. And not of the Upanishads only. The mystical experience of the union with God regularly leads to this view, unless strong prejudices stand in the way.

... pure and intelligent women can be deceived and misled by the baser sort, their very innocence and experience making them credulous and the helpless tools of the guilty and bold.

Unfortunately, in seeing ourselves as we truly are, not all that we see is beautiful and attractive. This is undoubtedly part of the reason we flee silence. We do not want to be confronted with our hypocrisy, our phoniness. We see how false and fragile is the false self we project. We have to go through this painful experience to come to our true self.

I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

We can teach from our experience, but we cannot teach experience.

Nothing can occur in your life experience without the invitation of it through your thought.

Tonight is not a setback. It's just a learning experience.

When a monk goes away from the world, he goes fighting with it. it is not a relaxed going. His whole being is pulled towards the world. He struggles against it. He becomes divided. Half of his being is for the world and half has become greedy for the other. He is torn apart. A monk is basically a schizophrenic, a split person, divided into the lower and the higher. And the lower goes on pulling him, and the lower becomes more and more attractive the more it is repressed. And because he has not lived the lower, he cannot get into the higher.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

There are moments of oneness with the Beloved, absolutely ecstasy and bliss. That is nothingness. And this nothingness loves you, responds to you, fulfills you utterly and yet there is nothing there. You flow out like a river without diminishing. This is the great mystical experience, the great ecstasy.

Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.

We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

You cannot experience yourself as what you are until you've encountered what you are not

The well-satisfied customer will bring the repeat sale that counts.

...pay attention to what users do, not what they say.

Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.