Quotes by Experience The mind can be thought of as containing reels and reels of motion picture film about our past experiences. These images are superimposed not only on each other but also on the lens through which we experience the present. Gerald Jampolsky experience mind past Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things. George Santayana glimpse experience causes Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own sake are their own justification. George Santayana experience done sake To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them. George Washington experience might past The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience. Gloria Swanson remembered hunting experience When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. Gilbert K. Chesterton exhausted experience love I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of. George Eliot experience understanding thinking But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy. George Eliot experience philosophy mean It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all. Grenville Kleiser experience lying years Within each of us, there is a silence, a silence as vast as the universe. And when we experience that silence, we remember who we are. Gunilla Brodde Norris experience silence meditation Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience. Gustav Mahler experience They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do Guillermo del Toro hellboy faithful experience We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. H. G. Wells experience events past Those experiences "made us who we are today!" It's just the way things are. Harold Homer Anderson who-we-are experience today Imagination is a poor substitute for experience. Havelock Ellis experience poor imagination Experience is a good school. But the fees are high. Heinrich Heine experience learning school Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation. H. L. Mencken experience poor men Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Harvey Mackay experience mistake past Everyone nowadays lives through too much and thinks through too little: they have a ravenous appetite and colic at the same time so that they keep getting thinner and thinner no matter how much they eat.--Whoever says nowadays, "I have not experienced anything"--is a simpleton. Friedrich Nietzsche experience littles thinking Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life. Henri Frederic Amiel common-sense experience science «56789101112131415»