Experience Quotes - Page 37

• Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

  Saint Augustine

  Mean, Men, Suffering

  Saint Augustine (1997). “The Confessions of Saint Augustine: The Autobiography of a Prodigal Who Became a Saint”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Past, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.3985, Delphi Classics

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• Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that greatest miracle of all, the human being.

  Marya Mannes

  Heart, Men, Miracle

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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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

  Men, Hands, Jars

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• Give back what you have learned. Share your experience.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Giving, Giving Back, Share

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• Imagine everything you're experiencing now being a hundred times more wonderful. Bad turns good; good turns great. THAT IS WHAT IS POSSIBLE.

  Marianne Williamson

  Imagination, Wonderful, Imagine

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• ...nature seems very conversant with the rules of pure mathematics, as our own mathematicians have formulated them in their studies, out of their own inner consciousness and without drawing to any appreciable extent on their experience of the outer world.

  James Jeans

  Nature, Science, Drawing

  Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.113, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

  Henri Poincare

  Science, Observation, Draws

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• We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages in some way. And from this code of information we then make a basic vocabulary of concepts and a basic grammar of laws, which jointly describe the inner organization that nature translates into the happenings and the appearances we meet.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Nature, Science, Vocabulary

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  My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

  Wernher von Braun

  God, Science, Light

  Letter to the California State board of Education, September 14, 1972.

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• Gentlemen, as we study the universe we see everywhere the most tremendous manifestations of force. In our own experience we know of but one source of force, namely will. How then can we help regarding the forces we see in nature as due to the will of some omnipresent, omnipotent being? Gentlemen, there must be a GOD.

  Benjamin Peirce

  God, Nature, Science

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• A single idea, if it is right, saves us the labor of an infinity of experiences.

  Jacques Maritain

  Business, Science, Ideas

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• Concerned to reconstruct past ideas, historians must approach the generation that held them as the anthropologist approaches an alien culture. They must, that is, be prepared at the start to find that natives speak a different language and map experience into different categories from those they themselves bring from home. And they must take as their object the discovery of those categories and the assimilation of the corresponding language.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Home, Science, Past

  Thomas S. Kuhn (1987). “Black-Body Theory and the Quantum Discontinuity, 1894-1912”, p.364, University of Chicago Press

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• You have to have a lot of ideas. First, if you want to make discoveries, it's a good thing to have good ideas. And second, you have to have a sort of sixth sense-the result of judgment and experience-which ideas are worth following up. I seem to have the first thing, a lot of ideas, and I also seem to have good judgment as to which are the bad ideas that I should just ignore, and the good ones, that I'd better follow up.

  Linus Pauling

  Science, Discovery, Ideas

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• Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.

  Albert Bandura

  Reality, Our Actions, Compromise

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• Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Glowing, Audience, Symbols

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.77, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• The essence of life is finding something you really love and then making the daily experience worthwhile.

  Denis Waitley

  Love, Life, Essence

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• Every experience is a lesson. Every loss is a gain.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Loss, Lessons, Gains

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Mar 11, 2010

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• If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

  David Hume

  Future, Science, Past

  David Hume (1758). “Essays and Treatises on several subjects, etc. New edition”, p.305

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• I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success.

  Walter Russell

  Interesting, Secret, Stones

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• The less there is of you, the more you experience the sublime.

  Joseph Campbell

  Sublime

  Joseph Campbell (2011). “A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living”, p.97, Joseph Campbell Foundation

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• How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Views, America

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.137, Penguin

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• I use the word inquiry as synonymous with The Work...Inquiry is a way to end confusion and to experience internal peace, even in a world of apparent chaos. Above all else, inquiry is about realizing that all the answers we ever need are always available inside us.

  Byron Katie

  Confusion, Needs, Inquiry

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• My experience is that the teachers we need most are the people we're living with right now.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Teacher, People

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• It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspiration, Learning, Creativity

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