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• If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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• Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Life, Education

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• We learn of great things by little experiences.

  Bram Stoker

  Littles, Great Things

  Bram Stoker (2016). “The Jewel of Seven Stars”, p.170, Xist Publishing

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• Succeeding is not really a life experience that does that much good. Failing is a much more sobering and enlightening experience.

  Michael Eisner

  Life, Failure, Doe

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• It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Learning

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.

  Twyla Tharp

  Optimistic, Optimism, Degrees

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• And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

  John Milton

  Stars, Cells, Heaven

  c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

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• Cambodia was not a mistake; it was a crime. The world is diminished by the experience.

  William Shawcross

  Mistake, World, Crime

  1979 Sideshow, after word.

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• Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

  Ivan Panin

  Ifs

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• It must be possible for an empirical system to be refuted by experience.

  Karl Popper

  'The Logic of Scientific Discovery' (1934) ch. 1, sect. 6

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• Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.

  William Golding

  Should, Courses, Series

  1987 Close Quarters.

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• Our reverence for the nobility of manhood will not be lessened by the knowledge that man is in substance and in structure, one with the brutes; for he alone possesses the marvellous endowment of intelligible and rational speech whereby he has slowly accumulated and organized the experience which is almost wholly lost with the cessation of individual life in other animals; so that he now stands raised above it as on a mountain-top, far above the level of his humble fellows, and transfigured from his grosser nature by reflecting, here and there, a ray from the infinite source of truth.

  Thomas Huxley

  Humble, Animal, Men

  1880 Man's Place in Nature.

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• The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things.

  Martin Heidegger

  Moving, Fundamentals, Should

  'Modern Science, Metaphysics and Mathematics', collected in Basic Writings (1977).

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• The social scientist is in a difficult, if not impossible position. On the one hand there is the temptation to see all of society as one's autobiography writ large, surely not the path to general truth. On the other hand, there is the attempt to be general and objective by pretending that one knows nothing about the experience of being human, forcing the investigator to pretend that people usually know and tell the truth about important issues, when we all know from our own lives how impossible that is.

  Richard Lewontin

  Hands, Issues, People

  "Sex, Lies, and Social Science". The New York Review of Books, www.nybooks.com. April 20, 1995.

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• We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

  George Washington

  Ocean, Past, Men

  George Washington, David Maydole Matteson (1781). “The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources, 1745-1799”, p.378

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• When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes.

  T. S. Eliot

  Mind, Poet, Working It

  1921 Selected Essays (1932),'The Metaphysical Poets'.

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• With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Faculty

  1869 The Subjection of Women, ch.3.

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• You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

  William James

  Cash, Streams, Practicals

  1907 Pragmatism, lecture 2.

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• Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

  Idi Amin

  Men, Lessons, Be Careful

  1978 Unsolicited advice to Lord Snowdon on the ending of his marriage to Princess Margaret, quoted in A Barrow International Gossip (1983).

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• Your mind now, moldering like wedding-cake, heavy with useless experience, rich with suspicion, rumour, fantasy, crumbling to pieces under the knife-edge of mere fact. In the prime of your life.

  Adrienne Rich

  Knives, Cake, Mind

  1963 Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law,'Snapshots of a Daughterin- Law,1'.

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• A lot of what we are doing is getting design out of the way.

  Jonathan Ive

  Design, Way

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• People are experience-rich and theory-poor.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  People, Rich, Poor

  "The man who can't stop thinking" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Reflection, Observation, Delusion

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.175, 谷月社

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• Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

  Albert Einstein

  Void, Blind, Conception

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• What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

  Robert Burns

  Temptation, Done, May

  Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.37

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