Personal Experience Quotes
140 quotes by 131 authors
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Like so many of our people, we have now had a personal experience of German barbarity which only strengthens the resolution of all of us…
— George VI
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Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience ("I put my finger in…
— Philip Pullman
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Mysticism is: a. An advanced state of inner enlightenment. b. Union with Reality. c. A state of genuinely satisfying success. d. Insight into an entirely…
— Vernon Howard
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Why the transfer of decisions from those with personal experience and a stake in the outcome to those with neither can be expected to lead…
— Thomas Sowell
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Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience.
— Mae Jemison
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You won't get gun control by disarming law-abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock…
— Ronald Reagan
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Running is ultimately a personal experience. It is a revival of the spirit, a private oasis for the thirsty mind. Yet, its healing power only…
— Amby Burfoot
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Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household…
— Eva Cox
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When you become so determined that you want to feel good - you have become as your Inner Being is, in such a pure place…
— Esther Hicks
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This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at…
— Mario Vargas Llosa
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All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience.
— Robert Holdstock
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A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.
— Joseph Collins
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The problem isn't that people don't understand how good things are. It's that they know, from personal experience, that things really aren't that good.
— Paul Krugman
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Being young and trying to catch a glimpse of the depths, of the true self, of the soul, or whatever human beings have called it…
— David Whyte
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All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
— Mark Twain
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Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to…
— Albert Einstein
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Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he…
— Albert Einstein
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How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal experience or imagination,…
— Peter Selgin
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Al Davis is a legend and his contribution and influence on the game of football, the National Football League, and the Oakland Raiders has been…
— Amy Trask
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I believe that Manila can be a reflection of your state of mind. Being a city of extreme contrasts it's easy to see how it…
— Carlos Celdran
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