Quotes with experience

Quotes 461 till 480 of 617.

  • Bernadette Peters The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experience.
    Bernadette Peters
    American actress, singer, and author (1948 - )
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  • Isadora Duncan The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • M. Scott Peck The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
    M. Scott Peck
    American psychiatrist and author (1936 - 2005)
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  • George Santayana The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The great problems of life, including of course sex, are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are balancing and compensating factors that correspond to the problems which life confronts us with in reality. This is not matter for astonishment, since these images are deposits of thousands of years of experience of the struggle for existence and for adaptation.
    Psychological Types (1921)
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Elizabeth Hardwick The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.
    Elizabeth Hardwick
    American literary critic, novelist, and short story writer (1916 - 2007)
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  • E. M. Forster The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Eliza Farnham The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
    Eliza Farnham
    American novelist, feminist and abolitionist (1815 - 1864)
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  • Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
    Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon
    French naturalist and mathematician
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  • John Stuart Mill The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bede Griffiths The inspiration came suddenly again to surrender to the Mother. It was quite unexpected: And so somehow I made a surrender to the Mother. Then I had an experience of overwhelming love. Waves of love sort of flowed into me.
    Bede Griffiths
    British-born priest and Benedictine monk (1906 - 1993)
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  • Aleister Crowley The joy of life consists in the exercise of one's energies, continual growth, constant change, the enjoyment of every new experience. To stop means simply to die. The eternal mistake of mankind is to set up an attainable ideal.
    Aleister Crowley
    British occultist, writer, and mountaineer (1875 - 1947)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is...
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barbara de Angelis The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Albert Einstein The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Daniel J. Boorstin The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.
    Daniel J. Boorstin
    American historian (1914 - 2004)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Angela Carter The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Henry Ford The object of living is work, experience, and happiness. There is joy in work. All that money can do is buy us someone else's work in exchange for our own. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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