Experience Quotes
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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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.
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When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
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I have had to experience so much stupidity, so many vices, so much error, so much nausea, disillusionment and sorrow, just in order to become a child again and begin anew. I had to experience despair, I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide, in order to experience grace.
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God has frequently to knock the bottom board out of your experience if you are a saint in order to get you into contact with Himself. God wants you to understand this is a life of faith, not a life of sentimental enjoyment of His blessings. ... "Though He slay me yet will I trust Him" - this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.
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All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.
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A bad love experience is no reason to fear a new love experience.
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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Everyone has a purpose in life and a unique talent to give to others. And when we blend this unique talent with service to others, we experience the ecstasy and exultation of own spirit, which is the ultimate goal of all goals.
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Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.
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Learning is experience. Everything else is just information.
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Among many morals which press upon us from the poor minister's miserable experience, we put only this into a sentence: - 'Be true! Be true! Be true! Show freely to the world, if not your worst, yet some trait whereby the worst may be inferred!'
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Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. You need experience to gain wisdom.
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
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Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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I had never heard anyone doing what my show does, which is put the focus on the human condition - whatever you're going through, good or bad, right or wrong, straight or gay, whatever. That human experience is the meat of the show.
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I love to sing all kinds of music, but I know that my heart is for people to know God, and I want them to experience his love.
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The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.
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Experience by itself is not science.
