The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.
For each of us who appear to have had a successful experiment there are many to whom their own experiments seem barren and negative.
Privileged people can fall into the trap of universalizing experiences and laying them across other people’s experiences as an interpretive lens.
One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.
I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.
The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Never negotiate with kids. They don't have life experience, and they don't have repercussions for bad decisions; they still get fed and housed.
I think college is something I want to experience just to have the experience, really. I think about going to college all the time.
I have very smart parents. I feel I learned a lot from both of my parents and life experience.
The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
When you're improvising, it's fun to find something that you can lean on that is similar to your life experience. In my opinion, that's very helpful.
No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.
Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.
I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field.
I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian.
Lyrical poets have to be in touch with visceral experience. I've always tried to avoid virtual experiences. That's emerging in my fiction.
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
I just want to create, and socializing is part of the experience. It might sound crazy, but I don't see myself in the jewelry business. It's an experience.
The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated experiences.
