Experience Quotes - Page 18

• Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Thinker, Reasoning

  Leonardo da Vinci (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Leonardo da Vinci (Illustrated)”, p.969, Delphi Classics

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• I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven.

  Aldous Huxley

  Heaven, Visionaries, Sometimes

  1956 Heaven and Hell.

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• It had never occurred to Giles that there was something perfectly sensible about wanting to hold onto innocence. He had always gone in for the idea that since we only pass this way once, experience counts for everything.

  Andrew Norman Wilson

  Ideas, Gone, Way

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• Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.

  Bette Davis

  Mother, Years, Twenties

  1962 Advertisement placed in the Hollywood trade papers.

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• The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.

  Paul Bowles

  Different, Attention, Granted

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• Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves.

  Robert Breault

  Kids, Life Is, Figures

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• To describe externals, you become a scientist. To describe experience, you become an artist.

  Timothy Leary

  Artist, Scientist

  "Changing My Mind, Among Others : Lifetime Writings" by Timothy Leary, (p. 76), 1982.

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• Experience is the only good 'tis safer to borrow than to buy.

  Ivan Panin

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• I have very little experience of self-government. In fact, I am one of the most governed people in the world.

  Prince Philip

  Government, Self, People

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 30 Dec. 1959

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• Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

  Booth Tarkington

  Seriousness, Happens

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• Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Feelings, Vision

  1929 'The Risen Lord'.

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• Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

  F. R. Leavis

  Mean, Quality, Precision

  1932 New Bearings in English Poetry, ch.2.

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• Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Enough, Pure

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.59, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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• Pure love is who you are! When you express pure love, you give yourself the direct experience of who you are. It is the greatest gift! It looks as if your giving a gift to others, and you are giving it to yourself, that is because there is no one else in the room, it only looks as if there is.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Love You, Love Is, Giving

  Neale Donald Walsch (2002). “Friendship with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.134, Penguin

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• Only when I experience do I compose - only when I compose do I experience.

  Gustav Mahler

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• Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

  John Ruskin

  Passion, Skills, Force

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• Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

  Karl Kraus

  Wisdom, Saving, Inheritance

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspiring, Success, Baseball

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• You don’t always win, but every time you lose, you get better.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Positive Thinking, Winning, Get Better

  FaceBook post by Ian Somerhalder from Apr 17, 2013

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• You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you: You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth are the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

  Bruce Mau

  Inspirational, Change, Growth

  "An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth" by Scott Kirsner, www.fastcompany.com. September 30, 2000.

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• Conviction without experience makes for harshness.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Conviction, Harshness

  Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.97, Macmillan

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• Experience is only half of experience.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Half

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• When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Practice, Knowing, Meditation

  Rudolf Steiner (1994). “How to Know Higher Worlds”, p.36, SteinerBooks

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• What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.

  John Templeton

  Real, Important, Use

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• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation

  John Wooden (2013). “Quotes from Coach John Wooden: Winning with Principle”, p.160, B&H Publishing Group

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