Experience Quotes - Page 23

• Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Knowledge, Past, Order

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Feb 05, 2014

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• Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

  John Updike

  Life, Doe, Literature

  "Self-Consciousness: Memoirs". Book by John Updike, 1989.

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• Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

  H. G. Wells

  Truth, Lying, Men

  H. G. Wells (2000). “Crux Ansata: An Indictment of the Roman Catholic Church”, p.15, Book Tree

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• Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.

  Eudora Welty

  Writing, Stories, Way

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.90, Harvard University Press

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  I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life, Self Esteem, Women

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• I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.

  Jim Morrison

  Thinking, Important, Lowest Point

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• A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Strong, Character, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• The scariest moment is always just before you start.

  Stephen King

  Travel, Writing, Worst Moments

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• Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past.

  David Hume

  Past, Principles, Events

  David Hume, Eric Steinberg (1993). “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding ; [with] A Letter from a Gentleman to His Friend in Edinburgh ; [and] An Abstract of a Treatise of Human Nature”, p.29, Hackett Publishing

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• All experience is an arch wherethro' gleams that untraveled world whose margins fade forever and forever as we move.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Moving, Forever, Arches

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• Experience alone can decide on truth.

  Albert Einstein

  Truth, Lying, Science

  Albert Einstein (1954). “Ideas and Opinions: Based on Mein Weltbild”

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• The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

  Eric Hoffer

  Wise, Long, Creative

  Eric Hoffer (1979). “Before the Sabbath”, Harpercollins

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• To the creative individual all experience is seminal-all events are equidistant from new ideasand insights.

  Eric Hoffer

  Creative, Events, Individual

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• We are apt to think that our ideas are the creation of our own wisdom but the truth is that they are the result of the experience through outside contact.

  Konosuke Matsushita

  Thinking, Ideas, Truth Is

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• The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Imagination, Tragedy, World

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Aims of Education”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Secondhand experience breaks down a block from the car lot.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Block, Car, Breaking Down

  Ursula K. Le Guin (1997). “Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places”, p.158, Grove Press

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• Men have no better guidance than examples and facts proved by experience.

  Muhammad Abduh

  Men, Example, Facts

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• What is experience? A poor little hut constructed from the ruins of the palace of gold and marble called our illusions.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Gold, Littles, Ruins

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• Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and form nothing.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Substance, Facts, Form

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• Experience teaches.
  [Lat., Experientia docet.]

  Tacitus

  Teach

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• The difference between ancients and moderns is that the ancients asked what have we experienced, and moderns asked what can we experience.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Differences

  Alfred North Whitehead (1967). “Adventures of Ideas”, p.224, Simon and Schuster

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• We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.

  Jacques Barzun

  Art, Appreciate, Age

  Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.164, University of Chicago Press

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• Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

  Lewis Mumford

  Data, Energy, Atoms

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• I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

  Jules Breton

  Giving, Modesty

  Jules Breton (1891). “The Life of an Artist: Art and Nature”

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• I cannot experience your experience. You cannot experience my experience. We are both invisible men.

  R. D. Laing

  Men, Invisible

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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