Quotes about Experience
Call the world, if you please, the vale of Soul-making. Then you will find out the use of the world.
- John Keats
La vita รจ un'avventura da vivere, non un problema da risolvere.
- John Keats
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Education stuffs you full of ideas without the coinciding experience that gave rise to those ideas in the first place, giving you incorrect perspective and notions.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education but the means of education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.
- Walt Disney
You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.
- Arthur Ashe
The foundation of all mental illness is the unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.
- Carl Jung
In Silence God ceases to be an object and becomes an experience.
- Thomas Merton
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.
- Joseph Campbell
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
- John Keats
Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
- Oprah Winfrey