Best Quotes About Experience (Top 100)
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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss
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If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world
C.S. Lewis
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
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When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
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God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.
Elbert Hubbard
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Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
Helen Keller
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We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray Bradbury
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
Abraham Lincoln
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Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Rita Mae Brown
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Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.
John Keats
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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C.S. Lewis
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Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Jules Verne
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Live life fully while you're here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You're going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
Anthony Robbins
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Our real discoveries come from chaos, from going to the place that looks wrong and stupid and foolish.
Chuck Palahniuk
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Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If I love you, what business is it of yours?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Kahlil Gibran
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.
Woody Allen
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I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.
Maya Angelou
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Life is a tapestry woven by the decisions we make.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
Emily Dickinson
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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde
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It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.
Sara Teasdale
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Adams
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What holds the world together, as I have learned from bitter experience, is sexual intercourse.
Henry Miller
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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw
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You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel Adams
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kierkegaard
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.
Denis Waitley
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
Henry Ford
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham Lincoln
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Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
William Arthur Ward
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
Ram Dass
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.
Albert Einstein
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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
Oscar Wilde
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Experience is a question of instinct about life.
Oscar Wilde
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The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
Barbara de Angelis
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked"as I am surprisingly often"why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Richard Dawkins
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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
Oscar Wilde
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The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett
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None of us can help the things life has done to us. They're done before you realize it, and once they're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you'd like to be, and you've lost your true self forever.
Eugene O'Neill
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From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been, because I'd thought of nothing but the Chairman even while my life was drifting away from me. And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.
Arthur Golden
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The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
Edward Abbey
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A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
William Faulkner
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Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Amelia Earhart
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The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley
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I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.
Bessie Coleman
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
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Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
Max Frisch
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
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My own experience is that a certain kind of genius among students is best brought out in bed.
Allen Ginsberg
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The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
Elizabeth Hardwick
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker
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Through my LSD experience and my new picture of reality, I became aware of the wonder of creation, the magnificence of nature and of the animal and plant kingdom. I became very sensitive to what will happen to all this and all of us.
Albert Hofmann
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I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot
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Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.
Heinrich Heine
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Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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If Jesus gives us a task or assigns us to a difficult season, every ounce of our experience is meant for our instruction and completion if only we'll let Him finish the work. I fear, however, that we are so attention-deficit that we settle for bearable when beauty is just around the corner.
Beth Moore
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Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.
John W. Gardner
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We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
Samuel Butler
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I don't have to have faith, I have experience.
Joseph Campbell
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Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.
John Milton
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We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
Oscar Wilde
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I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.
Harriet Tubman
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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley
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War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
Desiderius Erasmus
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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington
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Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
Giacomo Leopardi
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Life is short, science is long; opportunity is elusive, experiment is dangerous, judgement is difficult.
Hippocrates
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.
Hal Borland
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The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.
Harry Caray
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Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.
Louis D. Brandeis
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I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
Oscar Levant
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Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura
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I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.
Annette Funicello
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Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.
Alan Keightley
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Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Bernice Johnson Reagon
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Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
Henry Ford
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As I say at the beginning of my workshops, 'Everything I say here is a lie — bullshit, in other words — because anything that you put in words is not experience, is not the experiment. It's a representation — a misrepresentation.
John C. Lilly
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Because our entire universe is made up of consciousness, we never really experience the universe directly we just experience our consciousness of the universe, our perception of it, so right, our only universe is perception.
Alan Moore
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
Warren Buffett
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No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
John Locke
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
Edgar Degas
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Suffering brings experience.
Aeschylus
Even More Experience Quotes
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If you want to run, run a mile. If you want to experience a different life, run a marathon.
Emil Zatopek
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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.
John Heywood
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It is a pity that, as one gradually gains experience, one loses one's youth.
Vincent Van Gogh
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My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.
Agnetha Faltskog
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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
Edward Abbey
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No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.
Alfred Adler
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.
Diane Arbus
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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold
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If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff Bezos
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
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Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.
George Sand
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Nothing ever becomes real till experienced " even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it
John Keats
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I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
Luis Miguel
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Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
Fred Perry
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Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Virginia Woolf
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I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
Jim Garrison
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Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
Eudora Welty
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah Winfrey
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Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose
Kevin Arnold
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The first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
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Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams
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I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
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If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
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My view on issues is based on common sense, and my experience as a mother of four children, as a sole parent, and as a businesswoman running a fish and chip shop.
Pauline Hanson
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All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau
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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.
Diane Keaton
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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
George Jean Nathan
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Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
Anthony Hopkins
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Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow
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There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Arnold Bennett
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Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.
Gerald Jampolsky
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein
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Long experience has taught me that in England nobody goes to the theatre unless he or she has bronchitis.
James Agate
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Breathe-in experience, breathe-out poetry.
Muriel Rukeyser
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The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing."
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.
W. Clement Stone
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
Barbara de Angelis
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The reward of suffering is experience
Aeschylus
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I would make my job a work of art. I would like whatever it is that I'm doing - everyone's experience of me, everyone's interaction with me, everyone's discussion, conversation, relationship with me - [to be] an event within which they get to see who they are. I would make of my life a work of art.
John Denver
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We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.
Jean Toomer
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Deep experience is never peaceful.
Henry James
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I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
Fanny Fern
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Experience, travel - these are as education in themselves
Euripides
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
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We need affordable space travel to inspire our youth, to let them know that they can experience their dreams, can set significant goals and be in a position to lead all of us to future progress in exploration, discovery and fun. Thanks to the X Prize for the inspiration.
Burt Rutan
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. e. cummings
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What you really value is what you miss, not what you have.
Jorge Luis Borges
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When you're experimenting you have to try so many things before you choose what you want, and you may go days getting nothing but exhaustion.
Fred Astaire
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A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.
Wallis Simpson
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Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton
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I must take issue with the term 'a mere child', for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
Fran Lebowitz
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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.
Richard Cecil
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Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.
Al Capp
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Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
John Updike
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I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.
Albert Einstein
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Science is the systematic classification of experience.
George Henry Lewes
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There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
Archibald MacLeish
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The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Later, I realized that the mission had to end in a let-down because the real barrier wasn't in the sky but in our knowledge and experience of supersonic flight.
Chuck Yeager
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See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
Keith Haring
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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.
Greg LeMond
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Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.
Pat Buchanan
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.
Helen Keller
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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James
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Wisdom is the daughter of experience
Leonardo da Vinci
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Quality is a direct experience independent of and prior to intellectual abstractions.
Robert M. Pirsig
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If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires.
Abigail Van Buren
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.
Henry James
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death
Robert Fulghum
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Blacks have traditionally had to operate in a situation where whites have set themselves up as the custodians of the black experience.
August Wilson
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Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
Harry Callahan
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
Thomas Carlyle
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I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.
Manfred von Richthofen
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On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars.
Bruce Willis
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Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.
Laura Schlessinger
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
Barbara de Angelis
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
Barbara Smith
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
Vaclav Havel
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Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Mysteriously and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience, the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
William Styron
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I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.
Elisabeth Shue
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In order to experience everyday spirituality, we need to remember that we are spiritual beings spending some time in a human body.
Barbara de Angelis
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If you can dream it, you can do it.
Walt Disney
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The thought you have now shapes your experience of the next moment. Practice shaping the moment.
Tom Barrett
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Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.
Samuel Smiles
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
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Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.
Kathleen Raine
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The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!
Eugene O'Neill
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Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
Eric Hoffer
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In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.
Harold S. Geneen
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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel
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Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.
Lillian Smith
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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.
William Ellery Channing
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Let us repeat the two crucial negative premises as established firmly by all human experience: (1) Words are not the things we are speaking about; and (2) There is no such thing as an object in absolute isolation.
Alfred Korzybski
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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Carl Rogers
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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.
Walter Benjamin
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You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.
Bob Dylan
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I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
Patrick Henry
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Experience is never at bargain price.
Alice B. Toklas
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Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.
Florence Nightingale
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My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver
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After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.
Audrey Tautou
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The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.
John Scott
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It takes a lot of experience of life to see why some relationships last and others do not. But we do not have to wait for a crisis to get an idea of the future of a particular relationship. Our behavior in little every incidents tells us a great deal.
Eknath Easwaran
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That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.
Charles Bukowski
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Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck.
Billie Holiday
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Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
Benjamin Franklin
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
Abba Eban
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
Carlos Fuentes
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard Baruch
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne
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Learning teacheth more in one year than experience in twenty.
Roger Ascham
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It is always self-defeating to pretend to a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.
Renata Adler
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Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.
Freda Adler
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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Jim Horning
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He [Columbus] enjoyed long stretches of pure delight such as only a seaman may know, and moments of high, proud exultation that only a discoverer can experience.
Samuel Eliot Morison
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The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.
Helen Keller
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Soul travel can be a general expansion of awareness and knowingness or conscious experience of the heavenly worlds.
Bob Hayes
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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
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The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.
Bill Frist
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
M. Scott Peck
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Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
Eugene Delacroix
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Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.
Horace
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Success, in a generally accepted sense of the term, means the opportunity to experience and to realize to the maximum the forces that are within us.
David Sarnoff
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One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
Gail Godwin
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Nothing is true in self-discovery unless it is true in your own experience. This is the only protection against the robot levels of the mind.
Barry Long
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Food is our common ground, a universal experience.
James Beard
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I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.
Wilson Mizner
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We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.
Judith Wright
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Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
Benjamin Jowett
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Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
Clifton Fadiman
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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
George Bernard Shaw
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Love is a hole in the heart.
Ben Hecht
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.
Mae West
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An optimist is a guy who has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
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Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per square inch than at any other time in its life.
Sam Brownback
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Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
Michael Garrett Marino
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We want to keep the actual Civil War experience alive.
Bobby Riggs
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Yet with great toil all that I can attain by long experience, and in learned schools, is for to know my knowledge is but vain, and those that think them wise, are greatest fools.
William Alexander
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There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
Josh Billings
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The mind never need stop growing. Indeed, one of the few experiences which never pall is the experience of watching one's own mind and how it produces new interests, responds to new stimuli, and develops new thoughts, apparently without effort and almost independently of one's own conscious control.
Gilbert Highet
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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
Walter Pater
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
Sholem Asch
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The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Henry Ford
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
Peter De Vries
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The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
Doug Larson
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Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.
Michel de Montaigne
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A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
Katherine Paterson
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
Vaclav Havel
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So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.
Isadora Duncan
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People break down into two groups when the experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans
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I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
Billy Bob Thornton
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What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.
Isadora Duncan
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Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.
Harvey S. Firestone
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The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: he looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience.
Jo Coudert
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Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
Robert E. Lee
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Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Joseph Roux
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When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser.
Marianne Moore
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You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.
Barry Long
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Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Thomas Wolfe
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Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
James Anthony Froude
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A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
John Keats
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I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold MacMillan
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The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.
Joe Haldeman
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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
Clarence Day
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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
George Santayana
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When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
Harvey Mackay
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It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.
Woody Allen
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A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.
Elbert Hubbard
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And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.
Alice Childress
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I find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.
Enya
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We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
Cullen Hightower
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It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.
Aneurin Bevan
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With just a little education and practice on how to manage your emotions, you can move into a new experience of life so rewarding that you will be motivated to keep on managing your emotional nature in order to sustain it. The payoff is delicious in terms of improved quality of life.
Doc Childre
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enable you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
Jack Nicklaus
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I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.
Thomas Jefferson
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Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.
Benjamin Franklin
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The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
Don Williams, Jr
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Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.
Mary Daly
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
Benjamin Cardozo
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There are very few certainties that touch us all in this mortal experience, but one of the absolutes is that we will experience hardship and stress at some point.
Dr. James C. Dobson
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Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.
Bergen Evans
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To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
Barry Long
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Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
Milton Berle
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As between mileage and experience choose experience.
Clifton Fadiman
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
John Stuart Mill
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Because gratification of a desire leads to the temporary stilling of the mind and the experience of the peaceful, joyful Self it's no wonder that we get hooked on thinking that happiness comes from the satisfaction of desires. This is the meaning of the old adage, "Joy is not in things, it is in us.".
Joan Borysenko
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You can only get next to God through the effort of preparation. To experience the uncreated, the state of awareness will have to be held for several minutes. You are then between time and the time-less - waiting for the unknown, which will come but cannot be willed.
Barry Long
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When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.
Angela Ruggiero
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I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.
Audrey Hepburn
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I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different
Chris Klein
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It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.
Les Brown
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The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity.
Alan Gregg
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Flattery is like a painted armor; only for show.
Socrates
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It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
William Morris
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It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger Ascham
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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce
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Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience.
Elizabeth Bowen
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We can't learn without pain.
Aristotle
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I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.
Bob Barker
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Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can exist apart from religious principle.
George Washington
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Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
Alfred Sheinwold
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Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Bob Packwood
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Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments.
Leonardo da Vinci
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From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasant
Dalai Lama
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Go far — too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, Through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. The poorer and the baser you appear, The more you look through still.
John Fletcher
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You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
Greg Anderson
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An aphorism is true where it has fixed the impression of a genuine experience
Francis Herbert Bradley
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You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.
Arnold Bax
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Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Even on the highest throne in the world, we are still sitting on our ass.
Michel de Montaigne
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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
George Bernard Shaw
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Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience.
Eric Butterworth
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Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
Ezra Taft Benson
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To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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What experience and history teach is this - that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Sometimes when learning comes before experience It doesn't make sense right away.
Richard Bach
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Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.
Joseph Roux
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In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.
Jane Smiley
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You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.
John Dean
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I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
Barbra Streisand
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For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.
Karl Marx
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
Alice Walker
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Failure is not fatal. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. It should challenge us to new heights of accomplishments, not pull us to new depths of despair. From honest failure can come valuable experience.
William Arthur Ward
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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
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Anthropology is the only discipline that can access evidence about the entire human experience on this planet.
Michael Brian Schiffer
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Wonder is from surprise, and surprise stops with experience.
Bishop Robert South
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Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.
Michel de Montaigne
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Family... a group experience of love and support.
Marianne Williamson
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To me, the human experience does involve a great deal of anguish. It's joyful, but it's bittersweet. I just think that's life.
Amy Grant
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A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
Helen Rowland
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Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.
John Ruskin
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A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
Mark Twain
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Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.
Joan Rivers
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Life is consciousness.
Emmet Fox
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You're buying for the benefit of the cottage experience at a fraction of the price.
Brad Bird
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
David Mamet
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The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.
Daniel J. Boorstin
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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
Paulo Coelho
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Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
Woody Allen
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At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key
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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
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The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
Samuel Johnson
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Today is yesterday's pupil.
Thomas Fuller
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In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
Albert Einstein
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If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation.
Anais Nin
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I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers.
William Shakespeare
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Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There's no fool like an old fool —- you can't beat experience.
Jacob Braude
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Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau
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The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
Albert Einstein
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You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
Jimmy Carter
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Bette Davis
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Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Josh Billings
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Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
Havelock Ellis
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Annie Besant
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To overcome difficulties is to experience the full delight of existence.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
Angela Carter
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Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought.
Albert Einstein
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The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.
Albert Einstein
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Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
Katherine Anne Porter
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I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.
Lou Holtz
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
Frederick Buechner
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One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
Booth Tarkington
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From error to error one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
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The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Milton Friedman
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Prudence is but experience, which equal time, equally bestows on all men, in those things they equally apply themselves unto.
Thomas Hobbes
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The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
Henrik Ibsen