Quotes with experience

Quotes 321 till 340 of 617.

  • Boris Kodjoe Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.
    Boris Kodjoe
    Austrian-American actor, producer (1973 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Caroline Leavitt Literature can allow us to experience the best side of humankind, where instead of giving up, we struggle desperately in the ruins for love, connection and hope.
    Caroline Leavitt
    American novelist
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  • Carlos Fuentes Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Barrett Foa LL Cool J is a huge presence. He is a music mogul. He brings that experience and that life into the room.
    Barrett Foa
    American bari-tenor singer, dancer, and actor (1977 - )
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  • Brooke Shields Louis Malle was the best filmmaker I've ever worked with. He was such an artist. He was dealing with the theme of innocence and experience.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Albert Einstein Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Eric Hoffer Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Arthur Middleton Many people experience Gethsemane moments.
    Arthur Middleton
    American politician (1742 - 1787)
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  • Bell Hooks Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Virginia Woolf Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Kathleen Raine Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience finds in nature the ''correspondence'' through which we may know our boundless selves.
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Walter Benjamin Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Andrea Dworkin Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.
    Andrea Dworkin
    American radical feminist and writer (1946 - 2005)
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  • Denis Waitley Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
    Denis Waitley
    American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Most maxim-mongers have preferred the prettiness to the justness of a thought, and the turn to the truth; but I have refused myself to everything that my own experience did not justify and confirm.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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