“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.”
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“I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.”
“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.”
“The questions which one asks oneself begin, at least, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.”
“Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.”
“Any experience can be transformed into something of value.”
“To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.”
“I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don't have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.”
“A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.”
“Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.”
“The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.”
“Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.”
“The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.”
“When we learn from experience, the scars of sin can lead us to restoration and a renewed intimacy with God.”
“Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.”
“I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.”
“The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.”
“Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.”
“No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.”
“Anybody who has gone through a life-changing experience will tell you there is a different understanding of what is real and what is important, and when you are going through different moments, you can reflect and go, 'I have been through worse.'”
“My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.”
“But if somebody dies, if something happens to you, there is a normal process of depression, it is part of being human, and some people view it as a learning experience etc.”
“Optimism with some experience behind it is much more energizing than plain old experience with a certain degree of cynicism.”
“But my experience is that people who have been through painful, difficult times are filled with compassion.”