Two things control mens nature, instinct and experience. – Blaise Pascal
I didnt fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience – to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Ive learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. – Martha Washington
I just go where my heart tells me, where my gut tells me to go, where Im enjoying my life the most, where I feel like I can have the most success. Ive truly enjoyed my experience in NASCAR, to the point that I want to do it full time. – Danica Patrick
Ive learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work. – Louis C. K.
A few years experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings. – George Mason
I must take issue with the term a mere child, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult. – Fran Lebowitz
Most people go through life dreading theyll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. Theyve already passed their test in life. Theyre aristocrats. – Diane Arbus
No mans knowledge here can go beyond his experience. – John Locke
I havent been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. Ive been very safe, very conservative with investments. I dont blow money. I dont have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. Ive already had that experience. – Jim Carrey
Acting is a question of absorbing other peoples personalities and adding some of your own experience. – Jean-Paul Sartre
The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become ones key to the experience of others. – James A. Baldwin
To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear Gods responses. – Charles Stanley
I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I dont have that experience. My only experience is at losing them. – Richard M. Nixon
A leader who confines his role to his peoples experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his peoples experience runs the risk of not being understood. – Henry A. Kissinger
The statesmans duty is to bridge the gap between his nations experience and his vision. – Henry A. Kissinger
I understand now that the vulnerability Ive always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You cant experience life without feeling life. What Ive learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, its a strength. – Elisabeth Shue
Happiness isnt something you experience its something you remember. – Oscar Levant
I dont claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday Im home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, Through the Year with Jimmy Carter. – Jimmy Carter
Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, I have been through worse. – Delta Goodrem
