Experience Quotes - Page 27

• The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

  Alvin Toffler

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

  "Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock, dies aged 87". www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2016.

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• A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Two, Imagination

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• To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

  Pema Chodron

  Alive, Nests, Awake

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.93, Shambhala Publications

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• One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.

  Arnold Bennett

  Pain, Crazy, Mad

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of Arnold Bennett (Illustrated)”, p.3065, Delphi Classics

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• Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

  Bill Gates

  Poverty, Bigs, Activist

  "Column: Great lines from commencement speeches of the past" by Randy Blaser, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2017.

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• It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

  Renata Adler

  Inspirational, Fashion, Self

  Renata Adler (1969). “A year in the dark: journal of a film critic, 1968-69”

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• An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

  Andre Gide

  Understanding, Looks, Lessons

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• What the public expects to encounter in an actress passed 70 is the sum of her experience, not her beauty.

  Leslie Caron

  Encounters, Her Beauty, Actresses

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• Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Illusion, Lost

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• Experience is the only teacher, and we get his lesson indifferently in any school.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, School, Understanding

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Light, Labor, Oneself

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• Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training.

  Aldous Huxley

  Training, Significant, Simplest

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

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• Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

  Albert Einstein

  Learning, Science, Discovery

  Albert Einstein (2011). “The Theory of Relativity: and Other Essays”, p.4, Open Road Media

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• My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing.

  Jane Fonda

  Assets

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• Dreams are faithful interpreters of our inclinations; but there is art required to sort and understand them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Dream, Art, Faithful

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.1257, Xist Publishing

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• While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Government, Years, Space

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.368, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

  H. G. Wells

  Past, Events, Inevitable

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• It is far better to borrow experience than to buy it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.30

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• That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Daily Life, Life Is, Oneself

  D. H. Lawrence, Book House (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.805, Book House

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• The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.

  Albert Einstein

  Legitimacy, Justification, Concepts

  Albert Einstein (2014). “The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Thinking, Purpose, Forget

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.215, Courier Corporation

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• You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Tribulation, Parentheses, Omitting

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Littles, Way

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Without passions you have no experience whatever.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Passion

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “Human, All-Too-Human: Parts One and Two”, p.235, Courier Corporation

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