Quotes about experience

"Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

Amory, Cleveland on experience   

"Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills."

Antrim, Minna on experience
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"My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is."

Augustine, St. on experience   

"Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair."

Baldwin, James on experience   

"Experience that destroys innocents also leads one back to it."

Baldwin, James on experience   

"You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."

Bax, Arnold on experience   

"Experience is determined by yourself -- not the circumstances of your life."

Bellin, Gita on experience   

"Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn."

Benjamin, Walter on experience   

"Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to."

Benson, Ezra Taft on experience   

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

Bierce, Ambrose on experience   

"Experience. The wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced."

Bierce, Ambrose on experience
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"Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been."

Billings, Josh on experience
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"Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies."

Billings, Josh on experience
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"Experience isn't interesting until it begins to repeat itself. In fact, till it does that, it hardly is experience."

Bowen, Elizabeth on experience   

"Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal well meaning but without understanding."

Brandeis, Louis D. on experience   

"Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand."

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on experience   

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"I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise."

Buddha on experience
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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."

Butler, Samuel on experience
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"Where you are in consciousness has everything to do with what you see in experience."

Butterworth, Eric on experience   

"A little experience often upsets a lot of theory."

Cadman on experience   

"I don't have to have faith, I have experience."

Campbell, Joseph on experience   

"You can't create experience. You must undergo it."

Camus, Albert on experience
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"The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick."

Carter, Angela on experience   

"Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it."

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand on experience
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"Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life."

Chamfort, Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De on experience
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"Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost."

Channing, William Ellery on experience   

"There is a sort of veteran woman of condition, who, having lived always in the grand monde, and having possibly had some gallantries, together with the experience of five and twenty or thirty years, form a young fellow better than all the rules that can be given him. Wherever you go, make some of those women your friends; which a very little matter will do. Ask their advice, tell them your doubts or difficulties as to your behavior; but take great care not to drop one word of their experience; for experience implies age, and the suspicion of age, no woman, let her be ever so old, ever forgives."

Chesterfield, Lord on experience   

"When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on experience
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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

Chesterton, Gilbert K. on experience   

"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed."

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor on experience
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"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it."

Connors, Jimmy on experience   

"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."

Da Vinci, Leonardo on experience
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"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."

Daumal, Rene on experience   

"I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad."

Doctorow, E. L. on experience   

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."

Dylan, Bob on experience   

"The only source of knowledge is experience."

Einstein, Albert on experience
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"Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object."

Einstein, Albert on experience
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"But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."

Eliot, George on experience
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"Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?"

Eliot, George on experience   

"Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on experience
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