Experience Quotes - Page 25

• Experience is the name men give to their follies or their sorrows.

  Alfred de Musset

  Men, Names, Giving

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• Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

  James Anthony Froude

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.460, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.

  Doug Larson

  Cute, Graduation, Graduates

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• Science is the systematic classification of experience.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Systematic, Classification

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Physical Basis of Mind: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind”

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• Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

  James A. Baldwin

  Affair, Speechless

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• We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

  Cullen Hightower

  Worry, Panic, Moments

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• A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

  Deepak Chopra

  Attitude, Perception, Vedas

  Deepak Chopra (1990). “Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/body Medicine”, Bantam

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• Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Life, Motivational, Character

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• It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.

  Benjamin Minge Duggar

  Goes On, Ought

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• We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering, we are being kind to ourselves. The truth is we only become more fearful, more hardened and more alienated. We experience ourselves as being separate from the whole. This separateness becomes like a prison for us - a prison that restricts us to our personal hopes and fears, and to caring only for the people nearest to us. Curiously enough, if we primarily try to shield ourselves from discomfort, we suffer. Yet, when we don't close off, when we let our hearts break, we discover our kinship with all beings.

  Pema Chodron

  Truth, Fear, Heart

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• Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

  Zeno Vendler

  Thinking, Thoughtful, Imagination

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• Experience is truly the only thing that makes experts so expert.

  Suzanne Falter-Barns

  Experts

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• Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  White, Frost, Spiders

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• Measurement of life should be proportioned rather to the intensity of the experience than to its actual length.

  Thomas Hardy

  Measurement, Intensity, Length

  Thomas Hardy (1873). “A Pair of Blue Eyes”, p.273

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• Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.

  Francis Bacon

  Truth, Errors, Confusion

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• Some by experience find those words mis-placed: At leisure married, they repent in haste.

  William Congreve

  Haste, Leisure, Married

  'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 5, sc. 8

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• No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

  Menander

  Men, Alive, Happens

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• The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

  Menander

  School, Curriculum, Hard

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• And others' follies teach us not,
  Nor much their wisdom teaches,
  And most, of sterling worth, is what
  Our own experience preaches.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Teach, Folly, Sterling

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.510, Delphi Classics

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• ... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Success, Lonely, Heart

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• Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory and imagination.

  Nita Leland

  Art, Memories, Book

  Nita Leland (2006). “The New Creative Artist”, p.18, North Light Books

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• Try to catch a trout and experience the glorious feeling of letting it go and seeing it swimming away.

  Billy Connolly

  Swimming, Feelings, Let It Go

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• Do you think it's possible that when we're on something like marijuana or mushrooms and we believe we're having a really spiritual experience that we're just high?

  Bill Maher

  Spiritual, Believe, Marijuana

  "Religulous". www.imdb.com. 2008.

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