“Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
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“There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.”
“The key to education is the experience of beauty.”
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
“It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.”
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”
“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.”
“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”
“When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.”
“Experience is the teacher of all things.”
“Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
“Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.”
“All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.”
“There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.”
“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”
“Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.”
“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.”
“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”
“Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.”
“If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.”