Quotes with experience

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  • Rebecca West There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • Josh Billings There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • William E. Gladstone There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
    William E. Gladstone
    British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman (1809 - 1888)
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  • Cate Blanchett There's many things that you can do with your life. It doesn't necessarily - I think if you're in a creative sphere, or if you're hungry for experience, then those experiences don't necessarily happen like rungs of a ladder or in a linear way.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Butch Trucks To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Carmine Coppola To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.
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  • St. Teresa of Avila To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
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  • Arnold Bennett To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • David Mitchell True knowledge without experience is food without sustenance.
    Wolkenatlas (2008) 226
    David Mitchell
    English novelist and screenwriter (1969 - )
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  • Blair Underwood Two packed houses. I guess the theater sat 2,700 people every night so it was an amazing experience.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Brad Feld Ultimately, the goal is to use acquisitions to compress time on product development and get people on the team, especially in senior roles, who can help build out areas of the company they have experience in.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Philip Roth Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ursula K. Le Guin We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Benjamin Whorf We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Angela Davis We have accumulated a wealth of historical experience which confirms our belief that the scales of American justice are out of balance.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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