EXPERIENCE QUOTES III

quotations about experience

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To wish that others should learn by our experience, is sometimes as idle as to think that we can eat and they be filled; but when we find that we have eaten poison, it is doubtless mercy to warn others against the dish.

ELIZA COOK

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Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

HENRY JAMES

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Where the age of experience has not produced this sort of clear maturity in the spirit, then it produces either despair or folly, or an exaggerated shirking of reality, which, being a falsehood, is wickeder than despair, and far more inhuman than mere foolishness.

HILAIRE BELLOC

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Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

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We learn of great things by little experiences.

BRAM STOKER

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We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest.

GEORGE WASHINGTON

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We draw to ourselves the experiences which we are ready for and which we demand, and most souls do not demand enough.

ELSA BARKER

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Experience is the most eloquent of preachers, but she never has a large congregation.

BERZ

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

IVAN PANIN

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A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES

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There's nothing so easy to learn as experience, and nothing so hard to apply.

H. W. SHAW

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God sends experience to paint men's portraits.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

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That's the way people go. They have a powerful experience and they use it to interpret, rightly or wrongly, what happens later in the rest of the world.

JAMES FENTON

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The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

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Every man's experience of today is that he was a fool yesterday and the day before yesterday; tomorrow he will most likely be of exactly the same opinion.

CHARLES MACKAY

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Of all the things that make up a girl's life, I think it would be fair to categorize most of them into two groups: things done and things yet to do. And that is exactly how the years pass--waiting for certain milestones (like blue eye shadow) to come by so you can leap over them with joy and delight in your own maturity. Things like shopping--that is a given, since you've been doing it since you could walk. Slow-dancing with Greg Alcoke--that was a biggie, since it was preceded by such great anticipation. And so things go until you wake up one day and realize that the only thing left for you to experience is walking toward a bright light.

GWEN MACSAI

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Her hopes ne'er drew
Aught from experience, that chill touchstone, whose
Sad proof reduces all things from their hues.

LORD BYRON

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Experience is a comb
And love
(Love)
Love's a dog from hell

AKA BROWN

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Experience is another word for mistakes.

KEN ALSTAD

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Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action. We cannot learn men from books.

BENJAMIN DISRAELI

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