"To learn from experience, we must remember it,……" — Daniel Gilbert
"To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend."
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56 Quotes by Daniel Gilbert
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The word happiness is used to indicate at least three related things, which we might roughly call emotional happiness, moral…
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Happiness refers to feelings, virtue refers to actions, and those actions can cause those feelings. But not necessarily and not…
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Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the…
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The good news is that going blind is not going to make you as unhappy as you think it will.…
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The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room,…
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What’s so curious about human beings is that we can look deeply into the future, foresee disaster, and still do…
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Why isn’t it fun to watch a videotape of last night’s football game even when we don’t know who won?…
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In short, we derive support for our preferred conclusions by listening to the words that we put in the mouths…
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People want to be happy, and all the other things they want are typically meant to be a means to…
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We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends and almost all the other things…
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Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.
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When we have an experience -- hearing a particular sonata, making love with a particular person, watching the sun set…
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More Experience Quotes
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
— Chinua Achebe
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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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