“Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.”
Experience is what you get when you did not get what you wanted — and these quotes prove that the lessons of lived experience are impossible to shortcut. They cover wisdom earned the hard way, the value of mistakes, and why secondhand knowledge only gets you so far.
“Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.”
“Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.”
“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”
“The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.”
“Imagine a judicial nominee said 'my experience as a white man makes me better than a Latina woman.' Wouldn't they have to withdraw? New racism is no better than old racism.”
“There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.”
“I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.”
“Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.”
“Fame will go by and, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live.”
“I just love to experience things. I would do almost anything once.”
“It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.”
“Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.”
“Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.”
“Just as we accumulate memories of facts by integrating them into a network, we accumulate life experiences by integrating them into a web of other chronological memories. The denser the web, the denser the experience of time.”
“I think generally I'm kind of interested in subjective experience, what goes on inside someone's head, that being all they really know of the world.”
“Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.”