“Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.”
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“All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.”
“Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.”
“As a medical doctor, it is my duty to evaluate the situation with as much data as I can gather and as much expertise as I have and as much experience as I have to determine whether or not the wish of the patient is medically justified.”
“Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.”
“Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.”
“The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings.”
“Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.”
“Masterpieces are not single and solitary births they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.”
“Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.”
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”
“All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions.”
“Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.”
“Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.”
“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.”
“At times I experience hardship in trying to find the proper point of balance between traditional things and my own personality.”
“Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.”
“That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.”
“I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.”
“The new spirituality is that it will produce an experience in human encounters in which we become a living demonstration of the basic spiritual teaching 'We are all one.'”
“There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.”
“No place epitomizes the American experience and the American spirit more than New York City.”
“Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity.”