Own Experience Quotes
193 quotes by 171 authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.
— James Madison
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
— Dan Inosanto
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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
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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
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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
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One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
— James A. Baldwin
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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
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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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