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Experience Quotes by William James
- Feed the growing human being, feed him with the sort of experience for which from year to year he shows a natural craving, and he…
- To begin with our knowledge grows in spots. ..What you first gain, ... is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions,…
- You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
- There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
- An enormous mass of experience, both of homeopathic doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of these remedies and doses.
- Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
- Millions of items in the outward order are present to my senses which never properly enter into my experience. Why? Because they have no interest…
- 'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
- Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
- If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
- My experience is what I agree to attend to.
- So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or…
- The one who thinks over his experiences most, and weaves them into systematic relations with each other, will be the one with the best memory.
- All the higher, more penetrating ideals are revolutionary. They present themselves far less in the guise of effects of past experience than in that of…
- Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas
More Experience Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- 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
- 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
- In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. — Paulo Coelho
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson