Experience Quotes

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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a… — Hannah Arendt
For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it… — Sholem Asch
We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs. — Bashar al-Assad
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for… — Bashar al-Assad
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about their own history and their… — Chinua Achebe
Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such… — Margaret Atwood
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people and on how… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was… — Saint Augustine
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila
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… — Sai Baba
Informed by our sad experience of history, we require nothing short of a foundation for lasting democracy. — Ibrahim Babangida
I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience… — Michele Bachmann
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence. — Honore de Balzac
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. — Francis Bacon
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. — Francis Bacon
Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience. — Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be… — Francis Bacon

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