934 private quotes tagged experience

“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.” — Alan Watts

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“Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas.” — Harvey S. Firestone

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“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.” — Harry S. Truman

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“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.” — Alfred Tennyson

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“In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.” — George Eliot

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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?” — George Eliot

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“Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.” — Marshall McLuhan

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“Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.” — Francis Bacon

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“Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.” — Carl Jung

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“I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.” — R. Buckminster Fuller

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“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.” — Vincent Van Gogh

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“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.” — Karl Marx

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“In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.” — Bertrand Russell

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“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.” — Ansel Adams

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“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” — Abraham Lincoln

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“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.” — Henry Ford

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“Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.” — Blaise Pascal

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“Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.” — Stephen Fry

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“Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“The reward of suffering is experience.” — Harry S. Truman

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“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.” — Joseph Campbell

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“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.” — Aldous Huxley

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