Experience Quotes

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That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself. — D. H. Lawrence
When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have… — Albert Einstein
Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. — Henry David Thoreau
You cannot put patience and experience into a parenthesis, and, omitting them, bring hope out of tribulation. — Alexander MacLaren
Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we. — Michel de Montaigne
Without passions you have no experience whatever. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Our final experience, like our first, is conjectural. We move between two darkness's. — E. M. Forster
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred. — Philibert Joseph Roux
The mark of a man of the world is absence of pretension. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rapture's self is three parts sorrow. — Amy Lowell
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. — Baruch Spinoza
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In my plays I want to look at life at the commonplace of existence as if we had just turned a corner and run into… — Christopher Fry
Uselessness is a fatal accusation to bring against any act which is done for its presumed utility, but those which are done for their own… — George Santayana
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer? — Saint Augustine
All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Until we know what motivates the hearts and minds of men we can understand nothing outside ourselves, nor will we ever reach fulfillment as that… — Marya Mannes

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