934 private quotes tagged experience

“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.” — George Washington

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“To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?” — Voltaire

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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.” — Albert Einstein

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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.” — C. S. Lewis

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“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.” — Ludwig van Beethoven

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“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.” — Benjamin Franklin

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“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.” — George Eliot

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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.” — Benjamin Disraeli

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“The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.” — Franz Kafka

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“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.” — Mark Twain

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“Experience teaches only the teachable.” — Aldous Huxley

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“It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.” — Albert Einstein

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“You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.” — Woodrow Wilson

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“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” — Khalil Gibran

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“Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.” — Helen Keller

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“My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.” — Aeschylus

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“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty d--n good.” — Woody Allen

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“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.” — William Feather

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“The only source of knowledge is experience.” — Albert Einstein

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“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.” — Helen Keller

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