Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali. – Salvador Dali
The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. – Emily Dickinson
Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy. – Karl Marx
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn. – Aldous Huxley
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. – Carl Jung
The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile. – Denis Waitley
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness. – Stephen Fry
In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness. – Carl Rogers
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. – Denis Waitley
I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream. – Vincent Van Gogh
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine
Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. – Leonardo da Vinci
Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. – Carl Jung
The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety. – Sigmund Freud
In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word. – Bertrand Russell
The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. – John Stuart Mill
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. – Chinua Achebe
Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. – Albert Schweitzer
