Personal Experience Quotes

140 Personal Experience quotes by 131 unique authors

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in… — Lewis Thomas
Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the shards of personal experience into… — Patricia Hampl
The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings of powerlessness. We… — C. Wright Mills
Polls suggest that more and more, opposition to Obamacare is based on voters' personal experience, and not just on what they have heard or read… — Byron York
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!… — George Eliot
I'VE NOTICED, FROM MY EXPERIENCE, IF THE EXTERNAL, EMOTIONAL CONSTRUCTION OF IMAGES IN A FILM ARE BASED ON THE FILMMAKER'S OWN MEMORY, ON THE KINSHIP… — Andrei Tarkovsky
And they can appreciate, through personal experience, that the really decisive battleground of American freedom is in the hearts and minds of our own people...The… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind. — Susan Cheever
I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's… — Wilkie Collins
There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing… — Ben Horowitz
The fastest way to bring more wonderful examples of abundance into your personal experience is to take constant notice of the wonderful things that are… — Esther Hicks
From testimonials and personal experience we have enough information to conclude that IT'S POSSIBLE TO DESIGN AND LIVE AN EXTRAORDINARY LIFE — Jim Rohn
Of Love--may God exalt you! -the first part is jesting, and the last part is right earnestness. So majestic are its diverse aspects, they are… — Ibn Hazm
Christianity is unquestionably a personal experience. It is also unquestionably not a private experience. — William Barclay
For us to know that the Book of Mormon is true, we must read it and make the choice found in Moroni: pray to know… — Henry B. Eyring
Telling a true story about personal experience is not just a matter of being oneself, or even or finding oneself. It is also a matter… — Harriet Lerner
I have been extremely pleased to support the Trust's work in the Lupus Unit ever since. Personal experience also motivated me to become involved to… — Elaine Paige
No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most… — Thomas Sowell
All plays stem from personal experience. I was reading psychoanalytic lit for a couple of years, obsessively, in depth, and I got involved in analyzing… — John Patrick Shanley
What it comes down to, I believe, is that mentoring often involves telling people what they need to hear, rather than what they want to… — John Wooden
This is all about knowing a market, ... and it's so thorough that even if you don't have personal experience in that market you can… — Perry Marshall
If you could distill this down to a single principle its that the best marketers in the world know MARKETS first and foremost, and secondly… — Perry Marshall
To educate the masses politically is to make the totality of the nation a reality to each citizen. It is to make the history of… — Frantz Fanon
Progress in the Christian life is exactly equal to the growing knowledge we gain of the Triune God in personal experience. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
You choose, you live the consequences. Every yes, no, maybe, creates the school you call your personal experience. — Richard Bach

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