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• He hazardeth much who depends for his learning on experience. An unhappy master, he that is only made wise by many shipwrecks; a miserable merchant, that is neither rich nor wise till he has been bankrupt. By experience we find out a short way by a long wandering.

  Roger Ascham

  Wise, Long, Unhappy

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• Life is a conspiracy to shower you with a nonstop feast of interesting experiences, all of which are designed to help you grow your intelligence, shed your pretensions, and master the art of ingenious love.

  Rob Brezsny

  Love, Art, Interesting

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.45, Frog Books

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• Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

  Clarence Day

  Inspiring, Beauty, Knowledge

  Clarence Day (1921). “The Crow's Nest”

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• Every one of us is a mystic. We may or may not realize it, we may not even like it. But whether we know it or not, whether we accept it or not, mystical experience is always there, inviting us on a journey of ultimate discovery. We have been given the gift of life in this perplexing world to become who we ultimately are: creatures of boundless love, caring compassion, and wisdom. Existence is a summons to the eternal journey of the sage - the sage we all are, if only we could see.

  Wayne Teasdale

  God, Wisdom, Caring

  Wayne Teasdale (2010). “The Mystic Heart: Discovering a Universal Spirituality in the World's Religions”, p.3, New World Library

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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

  4th Of July, Adversity, Patriotic

  1978 Address to the Parliament of India, 2 Jun.

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• A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Long

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• I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.

  Sigmund Freud

  Thinking, Atheism, Littles

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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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

  Stars, Law, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...

  Wassily Kandinsky

  Waiting, Unseen, Alive

  "Kandinsky" by Frank Whitford, Paul Hamlyn Ltd, London, 1967.

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• Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Believe, Cake

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• We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Pleasure, Explanation, Turns

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• If we view a great mountain soaring into the sky, it may excite us, evoke an uplifted feeling within us. There is an interplay of something we see outside of us with our inner response. The artist takes that response and its feelings and shapes it on canvas with paint so that when finished it contains the experience.

  Lawren Harris

  Artist, Views, Sky

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• This apple tree is not the first one I draw, but perhaps the thousandth. I feel the sap rise to its spreading branches. I feel in my toes how its roots grip the earth.

  Frederick Franck

  Roots, Apples, Tree

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• Experience is no more transferable in morals than in art.

  James Anthony Froude

  Art, Moral

  James Anthony Froude (1869). “Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, March 19, 1869”, p.8

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• I know The past and thence I will essay to glean A warning for the future, so that man May profit by his errors, and derive Experience from his folly; For, when the power of imparting joy Is equal to the will, the human soul Requires no other heaven.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Past, Men, Errors

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (Illustrated)”, p.98, Delphi Classics

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• Do not fall into the error of the artist who boasts of twenty years experience in his craft while in fact he has had only one year of experience - twenty times.

  Trevanian

  Fall, Artist, Errors

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• Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Past, Thinking, Lakes

  Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

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• Too high an appreciation of our own talents is the chief cause why experience preaches to us all in vain.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Appreciation, Causes, Talent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

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• Experience is our only teacher both in war and peace.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Teacher, War

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.177

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• He teaches best,
  Who feels the hearts of all men in his breast,
  And knows their strength or weakness through his own.

  Bayard Taylor

  Heart, Men, Weakness

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.93

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• The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.

  William Matthews

  Character, Giving, Anxiety

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• Not only the individual experience slowly acquired, but the accumulated experience of the race, organized in language, condensed in instruments and axioms, and in what may be called the inherited intuitions--these form the multiple unity which is expressed in the abstract term "experience.

  George Henry Lewes

  Race, Unity, Intuition

  George Henry Lewes (1874). “Problems of Life and Mind: v.1-2 . The foundations of a creed”, p.26

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• Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hurt, Pain, Believe

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 06, 2016

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• One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life Lesson, Being Single

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.14, Westminster John Knox Press

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• But without the experience of actually singing or playing these things yourself, you don't have the same kind of involvement or understanding of what these musical moves mean. And that is a very big problem in addressing the future of music.

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Moving, Mean, Understanding

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