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“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
“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
— William James
“But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do. He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?”
— Stephen King
“The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital... the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth in the economy.”
— John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
— Immanuel Kant
“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”
— Immanuel Kant
“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.”
— John Locke
“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
— Clive Staples Lewis
“Throughout my whole life, as a performer, I've never played with a band. I've always played alone, so I was never required to stay in rhythm or anything. So it was a real different experience for me to start playing with a band. There were so many basic things for me to learn.”
— Steve Martin
“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.”
— Henry Miller
“Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.”
— John Stuart Mill
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