Past Experience Quotes

37 quotes by 33 authors

Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium… — Walter Benjamin
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable. — H.G. Wells
To consider the matter aright, reason is nothing but a wonderful and unintelligible instinct in our souls, which carries us along a certain train of… — David Hume
First, Know well that Intellectuality is not intelligence. To be intellectual is to be phony; it is a pretending intelligence. It is not real because… — Rajneesh
I think it would be just to say the most essential characteristic of mind is memory, using this word in its broadest sense to include… — Bertrand Russell
The only prerequisites are past experience, a suitable personality and good communication skills: you need to be able to communicate adequately in English. — Paul Clitheroe
The most that the Convention could do in such a situation, was to avoid the errors suggested by the past experience of other countries, as… — James Madison
We may be assured by past experience, that such a practice [as some states charging high taxes on goods from other states] would be introduced… — James Madison
There can be few fields of human endeavor in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance.Past experience, to the extent… — John Kenneth Galbraith
A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed… — Walker Percy
My mind is a center of Divine operation. The Divine operation is always for expansion and fuller expression, and this means the production of something… — Thomas Troward
If you're determined to think of yourself as limited, fearful, vulnerable, or scarred by past experience, know only that you have chosen to do so.… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
The aim of scientific thought, then, is to apply past experience to new circumstances; the instrument is an observed uniformity in the course of events.… — William Kingdon Clifford
It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe… — Charles Spurgeon
The notion that any one person can describe 'what really happened' is an absurdity. If ten - or a hundred - people witness an event,… — David Eddings
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction.… — A.J. Ayer
There are still psychologists who, in a basic misunderstanding, think that gestalt theory tends to underestimate the role of past experience. Gestalt theory tries to… — Max Wertheimer
It opposes the dogmatic application to all cases of what is adequate only for piecemeal aggregates. The question is whether an approach in piecemeal terms,… — Max Wertheimer
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way… — David Hume
Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather… — Mark Zandi

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