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" I never had the college experience, so I have raised my girls to be more work-oriented and motivated to be financially independent. "

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" If you're holding your iPhone, and it's the newest iteration of it, you're like, 'Oh, famous people have my phone. Captains of industry have my phone.' And that can be an intoxicating experience for someone who is going off to college for the first time. "

" Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. "

Calvin Coolidge

" Lyme has brought me to my knees; this disease is a silent killer and does not have a face. "

" We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish. "

Friedrich August von Hayek

" I didn't think; I experimented. "

Anthony Burgess

" As any parent, teacher, or librarian knows, there is no richer experience than to see children's faces light up at the suspense of a new tale or the surprise of a new poem. The uninhibited joy with which they listen is surely akin to that of adult audiences of old around campfire and hearth. "

William Jay Smith

" There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. "

John Stuart Mill

" Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. "

" I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first. "

" Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make. "

" The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft. "

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

" If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests. "

Alexander the Great

" You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward. "

" My ultimate aim is to make euthanasia a positive experience. "

" Finding that financial independence away from a broken relationship is probably one of the most powerful places a woman can get to. "

" Presidential elections and the voter experience have long been fraught for black people. From racist poll taxes to made-up literacy tests to the egregious rollback of voting rights over the past 50 years, American democracy has, at times, felt like a weird and failed social experiment. "

Patrisse Cullors

" When you take an Android device out of the box, you have to sign up to nine accounts with different vendors to get the experience iOS comes with. "

" Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate. "

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

" Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. "

Margaret Fuller

" Those who believe in God because their experience of life and the facts of nature prove his existence must have led sheltered lives and closed their hearts to the voice of their brothers' blood. "

Walter Kaufmann

" It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. "

" Deep experience is never peaceful. "

" Having been raised very disciplined, I had to iron for my mom every Friday afternoon after school. "

" I didn't have a traditional college experience. I didn't have a social aspect to it. I was always involved in working and going to school. "

" Motherhood has completely changed me. It's just about like the most completely humbling experience that I've ever had. I think that it puts you in your place because it really forces you to address the issues that you claim to believe in and if you can't stand up to those principles when you're raising a child, forget it. "

" With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange. "

" You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. "

Erin Morgenstern

" Some days are just bad days, that's all. You have to experience sadness to know happiness, and I remind myself that not every day is going to be a good day, that's just the way it is! "

" The Holocaust survivor who knows Auschwitz through the experience of suffering observes it all from the perspective assigned to him. He keeps silent or gives interviews to the Spielberg Foundation, he accepts the compensation payments promised him after a fifty-year delay, or, if he is prominent, he makes a speech in the Swedish Academy. "

" Religion is a very sensitive subject and reason for wars all over the world. "