100 Quotes About Experience

Experience is something that can be understood by everyone. Because of this, experiencing life is one of the most relatable things we can do. It’s easy to understand what it’s like to walk through a beautiful city, visit an interesting museum, or even try a new meal. But to really understand the impact of experience on us, we must learn what it is to experience our own lives Read more

Check out these experience quotes for inspiration and insight on the many different kinds of experiences there are.

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You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what had not yet ever been seen is devoured by the eyes: the scene consecrates the object I am going to love. The context is the constellation of elements, harmoniously arranged that encompass the experience of the amorous subject.. Love at first sight is always spoken in the past tense. The scene is perfectly adapted to this temporal phenomenon: distinct, abrupt, framed, it is already a memory (the nature of a photograph is not to represent but to memorialize).. this scene has all the magnificence of an accident: I cannot get over having had this good fortune: to meet what matches my desire. interval, something has been successful: I have been fulfilled (all my desires abolished by the plenitude of their satisfaction). . Roland Barthes
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Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. Dr. Seuss
The purpose of life is to live it, to taste...
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The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. Eleanor Roosevelt
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Don't let the expectations and opinions of other people affect your decisions. It's your life, not theirs. Do what matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and happy. Don't let the expectations and ideas of others limit who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are living their reality – not yours. There is more to life than pleasing people. There is much more to life than following others' prescribed path. There is so much more to life than what you experience right now. You need to decide who you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure. Roy T. Bennett
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Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces. C. Joybell C.
No matter how long you train someone to be brave,...
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No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens. Veronica Roth
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from...
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Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle. Paulo Coelho
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Don't JustDon't just learn, experience. Don't just read, absorb. Don't just change, transform. Don't just relate, advocate. Don't just promise, prove. Don't just criticize, encourage. Don't just think, ponder. Don't just take, give. Don't just see, feel. Don’t just dream, do. Don't just hear, listen. Don't just talk, act. Don't just tell, show. Don't just exist, live. Roy T. Bennett
Who are you? Are you in touch with all of...
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Who are you? Are you in touch with all of your darkest fantasies? Have you created a life for yourself where you can experience them? I have. I am fucking crazy. But I am free. Lana Del Rey
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and...
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Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. Criss Jami
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Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps Paula Hawkins
You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things...
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You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you. Mary Tyler Moore
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I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits Unknown
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every...
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams
All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living...
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All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. MingDao Deng
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People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way. Ashly Lorenzana
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The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better. Phil Lester
Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write...
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Question like a child, reason like an adult, and write like a sage. Criss Jami
Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded...
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Whatever I learned, Whatever I knew, Seems like those faded years of childhood that flew, Away in some dilemma, Always in some confusion, The purpose of this life, Seems like an illusion! Mehek Bassi
Great losses are great lessons.
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Great losses are great lessons. Amit Kalantri
Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems.
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Ability, experience and books have solution for all the problems. Amit Kalantri
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Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of human experience. There is nothing narrow about the conservative philosophy. It's a liberating philosophy. It is a magnificent philosophy. It is a philosophy for the ages, for all times. Mark R. Levin
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Each day brings with it a whole new world because each day is different from the previous day or the one it precedes. No two days will ever be the same and that is the beauty of the world and of God, because he wants us to see and experience new things each and every day. Anthony T. Hincks
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People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that: "A quiet conscience mades one strong!. Anne Frank
Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.
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Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey. Lolly Daskal
If you can feel the future, then you are about...
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If you can feel the future, then you are about to experience it. Toba Beta
Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can...
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Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you! Michael Bassey Johnson
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When we begin to reflect Christ, the Bible, when more understood as being centered around Christ, seems to be potentially every man's biography regarding God's promised experiences and truth for him - his individual, unique path of humbling oneself before the Lord and then being exalted by the Lord back into his true and righteous personhood. Many followers may speak of it merely to try to change other people (before changing themselves), but the prophets speak of it as a living word which miraculously tells their very own experiences. Criss Jami
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True art is thoughtful, emotional examination of how human themes impact the overall experience of existing. The rest is kitsch. Tiffany Madison
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God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment. Aldous Huxley
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Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience. C.s. Lewis
One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal...
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One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God. Criss Jami
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In that moment, I understand the way that the noblest yearning for duty and sacrifice can be mixed up with all that is savage and shameful, like in the Bible, where a just and merciful God tells you to kill everyone, kill the children, kill the livestock, kill John Polling, leave nothing alive to sully this pure and just world. Except when it's all done you find out that wasn't really God after all, just some politician, or maybe it was God, but he taps you on the shoulder and says, 'No, dude, that isn't what I meant, ' and leaves you sitting in a Dairy Queen in Bothell with blood on your hands and no further orders.. Stuart Archer Cohen
The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.
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The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark. Thomas Paine
We learn from failure, not from success!
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We learn from failure, not from success! Bram Stoker
All knowledge hurts.
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All knowledge hurts. Cassandra Clare
In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix...
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In order to rise from its own ashes, a Phoenix first must burn. Octavia E. Butler
Grown people know that they do not always know the...
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Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof. Zora Neale Hurston
The closer you come to knowing that you alone create...
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The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating. Eric Michael Leventhal
The master of the garden is the one who waters...
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The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte. Vera Nazarian
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
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Wisdom comes alone through suffering. Aeschylus
We are no longer in the dispensation of age and...
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We are no longer in the dispensation of age and experience. We are in the era of knowledge and information. Information leads a true leader and a true leader leads others. Israelmore Ayivor
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A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better. Jayleigh Cape
One must not make too much of anything in life,...
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One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad. Joseph Conrad
From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is...
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From the cradle to the grave, joy and pain is the fertilizer for wisdom. T.F. Hodge
I've come to the point where I never feel the...
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I've come to the point where I never feel the need to stop and evaluate whether or not I am happy. I'm just 'being', and without question, by default, it works. Criss Jami
To get a true education, going to school is not...
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To get a true education, going to school is not enough. School helps students gain knowledge; however, true education is in gaining wisdom, which can only be earned with experience. Charbel Tadros
You may never live long enough to discover who you...
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You may never live long enough to discover who you are, but by the time you reach middle age you will hopefully realize who you are not. James Rozoff
I embrace my experience and value my wisdom.
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I embrace my experience and value my wisdom. Amy Leigh Mercree
Whatever you experience is what you must feel.
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Whatever you experience is what you must feel. Lailah Gifty Akita
We live that we might have experience; that through it...
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We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength. Richelle E. Goodrich
Happiness is a collection of joyful experiences shared with soul...
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Happiness is a collection of joyful experiences shared with soul friends. Get together and have some fun! Amy Leigh Mercree
Making time to experience joy is the single most important...
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Making time to experience joy is the single most important thing you can do to heal your heart. Amy Leigh Mercree
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Everything happened to find the balance of Life. Lailah Gifty Akita
Don't ever let the Man get you.
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Don't ever let the Man get you. Sophia Amoruso
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Reason, Observation and Experience – the Holy Trinity of Science – have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect. Robert G. Ingersoll
I've learned from experience that the greater part of our...
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I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our disposition and not on our circumstances. Martha Washington
I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity,...
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I neither knew nor cared whether my experience was insanity, dreaming, or magic; but was determined to gaze on brilliance and gaiety at any cost. H.P. Lovecraft
I figure we go through things that make us stronger,...
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I figure we go through things that make us stronger, but we also go through things that just simply piss us off. Megan Winkler
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We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of wisdom, characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if caves. I wish for all this to be marked on by body when I am dead. I believe in such cartography - to be marked by nature, not just to label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or monogamous in our taste or experience. Michael Ondaatje
Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet...
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Never trust a man who teaches about death but yet had no real experience at all about it. Toba Beta
Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you...
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Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic. T.F. Hodge
Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage...
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Being divorced does not necessarily make one’s advice on marriage useless … or useful. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Being a bad parent is a sign of not having...
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Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Confidence comes from thoughtful action, reflection, and experience. Confidence does...
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Confidence comes from thoughtful action, reflection, and experience. Confidence does not come from reaction. Debasish Mridha
In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will...
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In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination. Amit Kalantri
Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for...
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Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress. Amit Kalantri
A writer fills the paper with the pictures of perception,...
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A writer fills the paper with the pictures of perception, experience, and feeling of real and imaginative lives. Debasish Mridha
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Religion is a belief with a set of rules, regulations, and rituals created by someone with his thoughts, imaginations, experiences, and wisdom. Most religions bring about positive changes for society. Spirituality is a perception of inner truth, inner beauty, and inner reality. Spirituality involves trusting your own experiences. Debasish Mridha
The past gave us experience and made us wiser so...
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The past gave us experience and made us wiser so that we can create a beautiful and brighter future. Debasish Mridha
With action experience grows, with travel outlooks grow, and with...
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With action experience grows, with travel outlooks grow, and with reflections wisdom grows. Debasish Mridha
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.. so this is for us. This is for us who sing, write, dance, act, study, run and loveand this is for doing it even if no one will ever knowbecause the beauty is in the act of doing it. Not what it can lead to. This is for the times I lose myself while writing, singing, playingand no one is around and they will never knowbut I will forever rememberand that shines brighter than any praise or fame or glory I will ever have, and this is for you who write or play or read or singby yourself with the light off and door closedwhen the world is asleep and the stars are alignedand maybe no one will ever hear itor read your wordsor know your thoughtsbut it doesn’t make it less glorious. It makes it ethereal. Mysterious.Infinite.For it belongs to you and whatever God or spirit you believe inand only you can decide how much it meantand meansand will forever meanand other people will experience it toothrough you. Through your spirit. Through the way you talk. Through the way you walk and love and laugh and careand I never meant to write this longbut what I want to say is: Don’t try to present your art by making other people read or hear or see or touch it; make them feel it. Wear your art like your heart on your sleeve and keep it alive by making people feel a little better. Feel a little lighter. Create art in order for yourself to become yourselfand let your very existence be your song, your poem, your story. Let your very identity be your book. Let the way people say your name sound like the sweetest melody. So go create. Take photographs in the wood, run alone in the rain and sing your heart out high up on a mountainwhere no one will ever hearand your very existence will be the most hypnotising scar. Make your life be your artand you will never be forgotten. Charlotte Eriksson
One way poetry connects is across time.. .. Some echo...
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One way poetry connects is across time.. .. Some echo of a writer's physical experience comes into us when we read her poem. Jane Hirshfield
Behold yon rough and flinty road Where youth, now youth...
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Behold yon rough and flinty road Where youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loaves He cast away of yore. Emma Ghent Curtis
All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator...
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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven. Orson F. Whitney
To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is...
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To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. Christopher Hitchens
[The] faith spoken of in the Bible is not a...
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[The] faith spoken of in the Bible is not a matter of intellectual belief, but a matter of connecting experientially and substantively with the person of Truth, Jesus. Karla Perry
It is through experience that I have lost faith in...
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It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement. Steven Magee
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Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers. Salman Rushdie
The best traveler is one without a camera.
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The best traveler is one without a camera. Kamand Kojouri
You can only write well , what you have lived.
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You can only write well , what you have lived. Lailah Gifty Akita
The courage to admit when you're wrong doesn't show weakness....
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The courage to admit when you're wrong doesn't show weakness. It shows your strength. Your integrity speaks volumes about you as a person. Blaque Diamond
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War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country? Mike Norton
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.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules of experience and with due regard to reality, that he should entrust precisely what affects him most nearly to the care of an authority which claims as its prerogative freedom from all the rules of rational thought. Sigmund Freud
The highest religion of human is the identity for which...
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The highest religion of human is the identity for which he is living rest is either one of the path or unnecessary fight. Ankit Samrat
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught Oscar Wilde
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If you want to really know something you have to observe or experience it in person; if you claim to know something on the basis of hearsay, or on happening to see it in a book, you'll be a laughingstock to those who really know. Jonathan D. Spence
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Every novel which is truly written contributes to the total of knowledge which is there at the disposal of the next writer who comes, but the next writer must pay, always, a certain nominal percentage in experience to be able to understand and assimilate what is available as his birthright and what he must, in turn, take his departure from. If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an ice-berg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing. A writer who appreciates the seriousness of writing so little that he is anxious to make people see he is formally educated, cultured or well-bred is merely a popinjay. And this too remember; a serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl. . Ernest Hemingway
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WONDERLANDIt is a person's unquenchable thirst for wonder That sets them on their initial quest for truth. The more doors you open, the smaller you become. The more places you see and the more people you meet, The greater your curiosity grows. The greater your curiosity, the more you will wander. The more you wander, the greater the wonder. The more you quench your thirst for wonder, The more you drink from the cup of life. The more you see and experience, the closer to truth you become. The more languages you learn, the more truths you can unravel. And the more countries you travel, the greater your understanding. And the greater your understanding, the less you see differences. And the more knowledge you gain, the wider your perspective, And the wider your perspective, the lesser your ignorance. Hence, the more wisdom you gain, the smaller you feel. And the smaller you feel, the greater you become. The more you see, the more you love --The more you love, the less walls you see. The more doors you are willing to open, The less close-minded you will be. The more open-minded you are, The more open your heart. And the more open your heart, The more you will be able to Send and receive --Truth and TRUEUnconditionalLOVE. Suzy Kassem
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Knowledge comes, but Wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. Calvin Coolidge
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That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how should the faculty of knowledge be called into activity, if not by objects which affect our senses and which, on the one hand, produce representations by themselves or on the other, rouse the activity of our understanding to compare, connect, or separate them and thus to convert the raw material of our sensible impressions into knowledge of objects, which we call experience? With respect to time, therefore, no knowledge within us is antecedent to experience, but all knowledge begins with it. But though all our knowledge begins with experience, is does not follow that it all arises from experience. For it is quite possible that even our empirical knowledge is a compound of that which we perceive through impressions, and of that which our own faculty of knowledge (incited by sense impressions) supplies from itself, a supplement which we do not distinguish from that raw material until long practice and rendered us capable of separating one from the other. It is therefore a question which deserves at least closer investigation and cannot be disposed of at first sight: Whether there is any knowledge independent of all experience and even of all impressions of the senses? Such knowledge is called 'a priori' and is distinguished from empirical knowledge, which has its source 'a posteriori', that is, in experience.. Immanuel Kant
Teach your brain now. . don't wait until life teach...
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Teach your brain now. . don't wait until life teach you ! Hamadene Aziz
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Yet I loathe the thought of annihilating myself quite as much now as I ever did. I think with sadness of all the books I’ve read, all the places I’ve seen, all the knowledge I’ve amassed and that will be no more. All the music, all the paintings, all the culture, so many places: and suddenly nothing.. If it had at least enriched the earth; if it had given birth to… what? A hill? A rocket? But no. Nothing will have taken place. I can still see the hedge of hazel trees flurried by the wind and the promises with which I fed my beating heart while I stood gazing at the gold-mine at my feet: a whole life to live. The promises have all been kept. And yet, turning an incredulous gaze towards that young and credulous girl, I realise with stupor how much I was gypped. Simone De Beauvoir
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Education being a change of behavior as a result of experience brings about wisdom and knowledge. While knowledge comes from what we read or study, wisdom comes from what we observe and experience. The purpose of education is not to affect negatively but to positively affect. When I see people using whatever wisdom or knowledge they have to cheat, I see an abuse of education all borne out of ignorance. . OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
Knowledge deepens with experience.
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Knowledge deepens with experience. TemitOpe Ibrahim
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Much of our suffering is caused by our false perceptions and attachment to mental images. We assume things to be true without really knowing whether they are true or not, then create a world of hurt for ourselves and others. Joseph P. Kauffman
Our perception is our window to the world, and we...
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Our perception is our window to the world, and we need to wipe the dust off of our window often so we can continue to see through it clearly. Joseph P. Kauffman