Personal Experience Quotes

140 quotes by 131 authors

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
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
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
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
Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provides a universal understanding of a personal experience. — Mae Jemison
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
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
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
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
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
All characters are based on elements of a writer's personal experience. — Robert Holdstock
A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others. — Joseph Collins
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
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
All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity. — Mark Twain
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
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
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
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
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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