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Experience Quotes by Peter Matthiessen
- Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted experience, in which…
- In fiction, you have a rough idea what's coming up next - sometimes you even make a little outline - but in fact you don't…
- When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning…
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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… — Hannah Arendt
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C.S. Lewis
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle