Own Experience Quotes

193 quotes by 171 authors

No other sentiment draws people to Jerusalem than the desire to see and touch the places where Christ was physically present, and to be able… — Paulinus of Nola
With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on my… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I have a theory of my own about what the art of the novel is, and how it came into being....It happens because the storyteller's… — Murasaki Shikibu
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and… — James Madison
I expect we shall be told, that the Militia of the country is its natural bulwark, and would be at all times equal to the… — Alexander Hamilton
I have appealed to our own experience for the truth of what I advance on this subject [that the legislative power is the predominant power].… — James Madison
It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable. — James Madison
I've never been turned down for a role because I'm gay. I'm a character actor, and that's probably why. I don't find Hollywood, in my… — Jane Lynch
Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people,… — James Taylor
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized. Sometimes I listen to songs by very smart writers who assume that the world is a… — Suzanne Vega
The evidence is overwhelming that Planet Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft. In other words, SOME UFOs are alien spacecraft. Most are… — Stanton T. Friedman
How wonderful it would be, I thought, if only we could practice the teachings of the Buddha as he really taught them from his own… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
Because of styles people are separated. Research your own experience, absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own. — Bruce Lee
Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. — Dan Inosanto
My own experience is that everybody is born with a certain talent, and unless he lives that talent to its fullest, something in him will… — Rajneesh
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas,… — Carl Rogers
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other,… — Henry A. Kissinger
One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience, — James A. Baldwin
Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very… — E T A Hoffmann
For myself and my own experience now, I don't really need any music. I have enough to listen to with just the sounds of the… — John Cage

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