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Experience Quotes by Ayn Rand
- Through all the centuries of the worship of the mindless, whatever stagnation humanity chose to endure, whatever brutality to practice-it was only by the grace…
- Since a rational man's ambition is unlimited, since his pursuit and achievement of values is a lifelong process - and the higher the values, the…
- I cannot project the degree of hatred required to make those women run around in crusades against abortion. Hatred is what they certainly project, not…
- I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these…
- A man's sexual choice is the result and the sum of his fundamental convictions.... He will always be attracted to the woman who reflects his…
- When I listen to a symphony I love, I don't get from it what the composer got. His 'Yes' was different from mine. He could…
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so… — Sholem Asch
- We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
- My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila