Experience Quotes - Page 31

• Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Knowledge Gained, Useful Knowledge

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Significant Things, House

  Texts and Pretexts (1932) p. 5

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• We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Adventure

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.273, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before-human experience-is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know.

  Ray Lyman Wilbur

  Life, Mistake, Sorrow

  Ray Lyman Wilbur (1940). “Human Hopes: Addresses & Papers on Education, Citizenship, & Social Porblems”

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• To live means to experience-through doing, feeling, thinking. Experience takes place in time, so time is the ultimate scarce resource we have. Over the years, the content of experience will determine the quality of life. Therefore one of the most essential decisions any of us can make is about how one's time is allocated or invested.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Life, Mean, Thinking

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1997). “Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life”, p.8, Basic Books

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• Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

  Phil Jackson

  Basketball, Real, Winning

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• It is possible to make each year bring with it a lasting gift to add to the fullness of experience, to be treasured up, savored, and remembered. They need not be startling, these gifts of the years; they may be things that lie within the reach of all.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Lying, Years, Add

  Grenville Kleiser (1949). “Make Your Life Worth Living”

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• Those experiences "made us who we are today!" It's just the way things are.

  Harold Homer Anderson

  Who We Are, Today, Way

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• The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

  Jimmy Connors

  Trouble, Advantage

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• Experience seems to be the only thing of any value that's widely distributed.

  William Feather

  Seems, Values

  William Feather (1949). “The Business of Life”

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• Experience is something I always think I have until I get more of it.

  Bill Vaughan

  Thinking

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• The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.

  William James

  Memories, Thinking, Systematic

  William James (2012). “Psychology: The Briefer Course”, p.129, Courier Corporation

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• The ordinary affairs of a nation offer little difficulty to a person of any experience.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Political, Ordinary, Politics

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.252

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• Growing up is, after all, only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what every one shares.

  Doris Lessing

  Growing Up, Women, Unique

  Doris Lessing (2012). “The Golden Notebook”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• The story of any one man's real experience finds its startling parallel in that of every one of us.

  James Russell Lowell

  Real, Men, Stories

  James Russell Lowell (1888). “The English Poets: Lessing, Rousseau: Essays”

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• You cannot speak of ocean to a well-frog, the creature of a narrower sphere. You cannot speak of ice to a summer insect, the creature of a season.

  Zhuangzi

  Summer, Ocean, Ice

  Zhuangzi, Herbert Allen Giles (1909). “Teachings and Sayings of Chuang Tzu”, p.18, Courier Corporation

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• Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction.

  Steve Jobs

  Past, Innovation, Connections

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• The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  Meditation, Mind, Acquisition

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• Life is a learning experience, only if you learn.

  Yogi Berra

  Learning, Life Is, Ifs

  Yogi Berra (2010). “What Time Is It? You Mean Now?: Advice for Life from the Zennest Master of Them All”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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• Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.

  Chris Argyris

  Smart, Teaching, Learning

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• We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Morning, Philosophy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2366, Delphi Classics

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• I've known countless people who were reservoirs of learning, yet never had a thought.

  Wilson Mizner

  Learning, People, Reservoirs

  Evanell K. Powell Brant, Addison Mizner, Wilson Mizner (1979*). “Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner”

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• Learning isn't a means to an end; it is an end in itself.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Learning, Mean, Ends

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.55, Macmillan

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• Supposing is good, but finding out is better.

  Mark Twain

  Learning, Science, Supposing That

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.99, Univ of California Press

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• It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow.

  Isaac Stern

  Failure, Grows, Experiments

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