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.

My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

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.

I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

Mistakes are painful when they happen but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

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.

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.

The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

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.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys when I was a tomboy was a great way to learn about winning and losing and most girls didn't have that experience.

I think it's been hard for people to understand how Islam can be a good religion and yet the Islamists are evil. Those of us who have had experience with Islam understand this just as we understand the difference between snake handlers and people going to church on Sunday morning.

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.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research not only in our country but around the world.

'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.

The soul should always stand ajar ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Each morning when I awake I experience again a supreme pleasure - that of being Salvador Dali.

If you want to run run a mile. If you want to experience a different life run a marathon.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes such enchanted musical instruments as the ears and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.

If merely 'feeling good' could decide drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.