Experience Quotes - Page 24

• The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Differences

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Appreciate, Age

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.164, University of Chicago Press

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• Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

  Lewis Mumford

  Data, Energy, Atoms

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• Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Block, Car, Breaking Down

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.158, Grove Press

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• Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.

  Muhammad Abduh

  Men, Example, Facts

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• Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Substance, Facts, Form

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• What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

  Isak Dinesen

  People, Old People

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.115, Vintage

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• I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

  R. D. Laing

  Men, Invisible

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

  Jules Breton

  Giving, Modesty

  Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

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• Experience teaches.
  [Lat., Experientia docet.]

  Tacitus

  Teach

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• Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

  Ann Landers

  Teacher, Lessons, Firsts

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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• Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Wisdom, Dollars, Information

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• Every experience empowers you twice: First when you enter into it with a whole heart, and again when you leave it with a whole heart.

  Alan Cohen

  Heart, Empowering, Firsts

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• That experience which does not make us better makes us worse.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Doe

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• You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

  William Hazlitt

  Life, Travel, World

  William Hazlitt (1904). “The Collected Works of William Hazlitt: Fugitive writings”

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• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

  Eartha Kitt

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

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• Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Life Experience, Denied

  "Gingrich and Limbaugh: Poor Privileged White Men Grappling with Sotomayor" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2009.

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• That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

  Doris Lessing

  Education, Learning, Understanding

  DORIS LESSING (1969). “THE FOUR-GATED CITY”

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• Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.

  Thomas Merton

  Uplifting, Men, Soul

  Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (2007). “Gandhi on Non-Violence”, p.106, New Directions Publishing

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• You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

  Mary Tyler Moore

  Positive, Happiness, Meaningful

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• Everything I experience influences everything I do.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Influence

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

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• Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

  George Santayana

  Conclusion, Draws, Empiricism

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

  Willie Stargell

  Proud, Learning Experience, Strikeouts

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• 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

  Past, Thinking, Progressive

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