“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
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“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
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“Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.”
“There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.”
“I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think.”
“There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.”
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
“The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”
“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
“I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!”
“Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.”
“We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.”
“So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn't in - 21 years ago, then I'd think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I'd like to fly on.”
“Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.”
“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
“The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.”
“Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.”
“The years teach much which the days never know.”
“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
“A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.”
“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.”