Quotes about Experience
Let them be fierce with you who have no experience of the difficulty with which error is discriminated from truth, and the way of life is found amid the illusions of the world.
— John Henry Newman
O for a life of Sensations rather than of Thoughts!
— John Keats
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced — even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
— John Keats
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 è 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