Experience Quotes - Page 6

• And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  God, Moving, Opportunity

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• My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Simple, Issues, Mistress

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.3, OUP Oxford

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• What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

  Robert Burns

  Temptation, Done, May

  Robert Burns, P. A. N., Robert Eldridge Aris WILLMOTT (1866). “The Poetical Works of Robert Burns. Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott. New Edition. With Numerous Additions. [The Preface Signed: P. A. N.]”, p.37

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• One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Taste, Helpful, Genuine

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• With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Faculty

  1869 The Subjection of Women, ch.3.

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• Experience, if we only learn by it, is cheap at any price.

  Ivan Panin

  Ifs

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• And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience to attain To something like prophetic strain.

  John Milton

  Stars, Cells, Heaven

  c.1631 Il Penseroso, l.167-74.

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• Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Drawing and masturbation were the first sacred experiences I remember.

  Carolee Schneemann

  Drawing, Sacred, Firsts

  Carolee Schneemann (2003). “Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects”, p.131, MIT Press

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• All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Birthday, Keys, Thirty

  "And Madly Teach : A Layman Looks at Public School Education". Book by Mortimer Brewster Smith, 1949.

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• Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  School, Fool, Keep Going

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• After each experience, you grow up, you get enriched with something, and you don't know how you're going to be in six months, you don't know what you're going to want, what you're going to need.

  Audrey Tautou

  Growing Up, Needs, Six Months

  Interview, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• The reason why the romantic love relationship is such an intense and universally sought-after experience is that it seems to offer liberation from a deep-seated state of fear, need, lack, and incompleteness that is part of the human condition in its unredeemed and unenlightened state.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Romantic Love, Romance, Love Relationship

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.150, New World Library

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• The free expression of opinion, as experience has taught us, is the safety-valve of passion. The noise of the rushing steam, when it escapes, alarms the timid; but it is the sign that we are safe. The concession of reasonable privilege anticipates the growth of furious-appetite.

  Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone

  Passion, Expression, Taught Us

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• At a certain age, we have already been struck by love; it no longer develops alone, according to its own mysteries and fateful laws while our hearts stand by startled and passive. We come to its assistanceRecognizing one of its symptoms, we recall, we bring back to life the others. Since we possess its song engraved in its totality within us, we do not need for a woman to tell us the beginning--filled with admiration inspired by beauty--to find the continuation.

  Marcel Proust

  Song, Heart, Law

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  We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

  Marcel Proust

  Wise, Wisdom, Im Sorry

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• Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Lost Friendship, Illusion, Lost

  "Meditations of a Parish Priest". Book by Joseph Roux, pt. 4, no. 28, 1886.

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• Whether you are aware of them or not, whether you recognize them as spiritual or not, you probably have had the experiences of silence, or transcendence, or the Divine-a few seconds, a few minutes that seem out of time; a moment when the ordinary looks beautiful, glowing; a deep sense of being at peace, feeling happy for no reason. When these experiences come...believe in them. They reflect your true nature.

  Ravi Shankar

  Happiness, Beautiful, Spiritual

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• There are two modes of acquiring knowledge, namely by reasoning and experience. Reasoning draws a conclusion and makes us grant the conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, nor does it remove doubt so that the mind may rest on the intuition of truth, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

  Roger Bacon

  Inspirational, Two, Doubt

  1267 Opus Majus (translated by Robert Belle Burke, 1928).

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• A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

  L. Frank Baum

  Baby, Brain, Earth

  L. Frank Baum, W. W. Denslow, Ned Halley (2009). “The Wizard of Oz”, p.131, Collector's Library

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  Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

  Douglas Adams

  Funny, Education, Wisdom

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.132, Ballantine Books

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• Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Tal Ben-Shahar (2002). “The Question of Happiness: On Finding Meaning, Pleasure, and the Ultimate Currency”, p.15, iUniverse

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• Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Knowing, Way, Arise

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• We have enough experiences in a day to make art for a decade.

  Eric Maisel

  Art, Enough, Decades

  Eric Maisel (2013). “Making Your Creative Mark: Nine Keys to Achieving Your Artistic Goals”, p.204, New World Library

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• If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Party, Passion, Learning

  In Thomas Allsop 'Letters, Conversations, and Recollections of S. T. Coleridge' (18 December 1831)

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