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“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
— Aldous Huxley
“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
— Aldous Huxley
“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”
— Aldous Huxley
“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct. ”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.”
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
“The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.”
— Franz Kafka
“The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.”
— Ovid
“You ask any moviemaker what their favorite movie experience was, and they'll say it was one of the first ones, where everyone had to pitch in and do everything together, and you had to struggle.”
— Robert Rodriguez
“Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.”
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
“Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process. ”
— Sai Baba
“Experience is the teacher of all things. ”
— Julius Caesar
“I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience. ”
— Jim Carrey
“Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience. ”
— Hillary Clinton
“It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty. ”
— Johnny Depp
“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever. ”
— Bob Dylan
“It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. ”
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. ”
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
“Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.”
— Edgar Allan Poe
“I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.”
— Audrey Hepburn
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
— Helen Keller
“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
— Helen Keller
“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”
— Helen Keller
“Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.”
— Helen Keller
“My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.”
— William James
“'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.”
— William James
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