Quotes about Experience
If a life can be a series of perpetual surprises, that's the most joyous experience you can have.
- Deepak Chopra
Every experience comes to us in one of four ways: as a feeling, a thought, an action, or simply a sense of being.
- Deepak Chopra
All energy comes from one source and returns to it. When I look at a rose, a tiny flicker of infinity is rising from the source to experience itself.
- Deepak Chopra
No external experience will support us, because the flux of events is inescapable. Note: from the introduction written by Chopra in The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts.
- Deepak Chopra
It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.
- Dennis Prager
I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
- Denzel Washington
God is most glorified in us when our knowledge and experience of Him ignite a forest fire of joy that consumes all competing pleasures and He alone becomes the treasure that we prize.
- Sam Storms
A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine.
- Ernest Hemingway
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
- Euripides
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
- Oscar Wilde
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
- Alain de Botton
Literature incarnates its meanings as concretely as possible. The knowledge that literature gives of a subject is the kind of knowledge that is obtained by (vicariously) living through an experience.
- Leland Ryken