Experience Quotes - Page 24

• 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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• What is it which is bought dearly, offered for nothing, and then most often refused?--Experience, old people's experience.

  Isak Dinesen

  People, Old People

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.115, Vintage

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• Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Wisdom, Dollars, Information

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• The price of a memory, is the memory of the sorrow it brings.

  Pittacus Lore

  Memories, Sadness, Sorrow

  Pittacus Lore (2010). “I Am Number Four: (Lorien Legacies Book 1)”, p.250, Penguin UK

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• A lot of people talk about life. Some love it. Some disparage it. And a few realize that life can be what you make it because they have learned from past experiences. Lessons learned from these experiences have often contributed greatly toward seeing the possibilities in what some people call "the game of life." When we've "been there" and "done that," we can have as good of an idea of what we don't want as what we do want. Experience is certainly an excellent teacher!

  John Templeton

  Teacher, Past, Games

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• No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Learning, Apprenticeship

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• What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Eye, Numbers, Trying

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest for me. My experience is what I agree to attend to. Only those items which I notice shape my mind --without selective interest, experience is an utter chaos.

  William James

  Order, Mind, Shapes

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.402, Courier Corporation

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

  Tacitus

  Teach

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• Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

  Ann Landers

  Teacher, Lessons, Firsts

  Ann Landers (1981). “Ann Lander's Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”, Ballantine Books

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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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• I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma.

  Eartha Kitt

  Inspirational, Graduation, Education

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• Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Life Experience, Denied

  "Gingrich and Limbaugh: Poor Privileged White Men Grappling with Sotomayor" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 2, 2009.

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• That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way.

  Doris Lessing

  Education, Learning, Understanding

  DORIS LESSING (1969). “THE FOUR-GATED CITY”

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• Science is the systematic classification of experience.

  George Henry Lewes

  Science, Systematic, Classification

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Physical Basis of Mind: Being the Second Series of Problems of Life and Mind”

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• Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair.

  James A. Baldwin

  Affair, Speechless

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• We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

  Cullen Hightower

  Worry, Panic, Moments

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• A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

  Deepak Chopra

  Attitude, Perception, Vedas

  Deepak Chopra (1990). “Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/body Medicine”, Bantam

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• Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don't like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

  Marianne Williamson

  Life, Motivational, Thinking

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Everything that we encounter leaves traces behind. Everything contributes imperceptibly to our education

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either intellect or fortune.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Life, Motivational, Character

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• It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.

  Benjamin Minge Duggar

  Goes On, Ought

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