If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression. – E. W. Howe
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. – Daniel J. Boorstin
All observers not laboring under hallucinations of the senses are agreed, or can be made to agree, about facts of sensible experience, through evidence toward which the intellect is merely passive, and over which the individual will and character have no control. – Chauncey Wright
Our thoughts have an order, not of themselves, but because the mind generates the spatio-temporal relationships involved in every experience. – Robert Lanza
Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. – Kinky Friedman
You have to see a building to comprehend it. Photographs cannot convey the experience, nor film. – Arthur Erickson
I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience. – Martha Plimpton
I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge. – Kristin Scott Thomas
Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern. – Alfred North Whitehead
The problem was to sustain at any cost the feeling you had in the theater that you were watching a real person, yes, but an intense condensation of his experience, not simply a realistic series of episodes. – Arthur Miller
Have you noticed in your past experience that your kind interpretations were almost always truer than you harsh one? – Lawrence G. Lovasik
Given that religious faith is an intrinsic element of human experience, it is best to approach and engage the subject with a sense of history and a critical sensibility. – Jon Meacham
Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us. – Jonathan Safran Foer
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience. – Shelley Winters
So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance. – Isadora Duncan
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul. – Arnold Bennett
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. – Harold MacMillan
In long experience I find that a man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts. – Harold MacMillan
I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. – Gerald R. Ford
