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Experience Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
- Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer…
- How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many…
- Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there…
- I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and…
- He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports…
- We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of…
- I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so…
- If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints…
- In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime,…
- Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
- However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part…
- Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they…
- Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized…
- From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized…
- Who is old enough to have learned from experience?
- The value of any experience is measured, of course, not by the amount of money, but the amount of development we get out of it.
- In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.
- Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and…
- I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.
- This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit…
- Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
- We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
- Spring-an experience in immortality.
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- 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… — 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… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — 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… — Saint Augustine
- To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. — Teresa of Avila