934 private quotes tagged experience

“Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.” — Lewis Mumford

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“Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.” — Harry Callahan

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“My path has not been determined. I shall have more experiences and pass many more milestones.” — Agnetha Faltskog

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“There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.” — John Stuart Mill

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“What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.” — Isadora Duncan

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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.” — Robert Fulghum

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“There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.” — Amy Grant

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“It may, however, be said that the level of experience to which concepts are inapplicable cannot yield any knowledge of a universal character, for concepts alone are capable of being socialized.” — Muhammad Iqbal

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“Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.” — Clarence Day

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“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.” — Sai Baba

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“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.” — Immanuel Kant

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“Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old.” — Julia Roberts

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“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.” — Søren Kierkegaard

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“Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.” — Karl Kraus

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“A statesman wants courage and a statesman wants vision but believe me, after six months' experience, he wants first, second, third and all the time - patience.” — Stanley Baldwin

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“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.” — Brigitte Bardot

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“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.” — Rita Mae Brown

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“Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.” — Laura Schlessinger

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“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.” — Auguste Rodin

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“It takes someone with a vision of the possibilities to attain new levels of experience. Someone with the courage to live his dreams.” — Les Brown

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“Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.” — Ralph Marston

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“Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.” — Anne Lamott

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“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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“A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.” — Wallis Simpson

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“Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.” — Franklin P. Jones

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