Ansel Adams Quote

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Thomas Jefferson

• Power

I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future.

Oliver Stone

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Auguste Rodin

• Wisdom
• Time

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

• Wisdom
• Time

The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.

Henrik Ibsen

I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that.

Eva Longoria

The impressions of the spriritual experiences gave my future life its form and content.

Gustav Mahler

• Future

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

Abraham Lincoln

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Brigitte Bardot

• Wisdom

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

• Society
• Knowledge
• Wisdom

Lord of the Rings was my first experience making movies and at the time, I had no ideas how movies were done. I thought that's the way they're done, so in a way, I had nothing to compare it to.

Orlando Bloom

Feelings do not grow old along with the body. Feelings form part of a world I don’t know, but it’s a world where there’s no time, so space, no frontiers.

Paulo Coelho

• Life

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.

Gustave Courbet

• Wisdom
• Sacred

I listened to the rock music of that time, but as you know and can easily hear: my music of that era had nothing to do with the common music of this era. I was experimenting, I was searching for something new.

Klaus Schulze

It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty.

Johnny Depp

There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area, all of them formed by MIT faculty and all had gone public.

Amar Bose

It's a very small and select slice of all the people who have ever been born. I believe we've come back during this time, those of us who are here now, specifically to experience it. And to cause a 'quickening of the spirit.'

Neale Donald Walsch

• Spirit

The solution of the difficulty is that the two mental pictures which experiment lead us to form - the one of the particles, the other of the waves - are both incomplete and have only the validity of analogies which are accurate only in limiting cases.

Werner Heisenberg

• Difficulty

Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish.

Liza Minnelli

With photography a new language has been created. Now for the first time it is possible to express reality by reality. We can look at an impression as long as we wish, we can delve into it and, so to speak, renew past experiences at will.

Ernst Haas

• Reality