Experience Quotes

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We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if… — Teju Cole
With all art expression, when something is seen, it is a vivid experience, sudden, compelling, and inevitable. — Ansel Adams
The great geniuses are those who have kept their childlike spirit and have added to it breadth of vision and experience. — Alfred Stieglitz
One does not think during creative work, any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years - learning,… — Edward Weston
The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text… — Jonathan Culler
No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the imagination gives us.… — Northrop Frye
The important thing is the educational experience itself â€” how to survive it. — Donald Barthelme
When you grow up in a family of languages, you develop a kind of casual fluency, so that languages, though differently colored, all seem transparent… — David Antin
We need myths to get by. We need story; otherwise the tremendous randomness of experience overwhelms us. Story is what penetrates. — Robert Coover
Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably… — Edward Abbey
One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work,… — Edward Abbey
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience. — Edward Abbey
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? — Charles Dickens
One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one… — Friedrich August von Hayek
I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when… — William E. Gladstone
Those characters wherein fear predominates over hope may apprehend too much from...instances of irregularity. They may conclude too hastily that nature has formed man insusceptible… — Thomas Jefferson
Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted. — Thomas Jefferson
Experience is the oracle of truth; and where its responses are unequivocal, they ought to be conclusive and sacred. — Alexander Hamilton
I know I can not paint a flower, I can not paint the sun on the desert on a bright summer morning but maybe in… — Georgia O'Keeffe
We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as… — Minor White

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