Julius Caesar
Military General, Statesman
"Experience is the teacher of all things."
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Miles Davis
Musician
"In music, silence is more important than sound."
Paulo Freire
Educator, Author
"No one is born fully-formed: it is through self-experience in the world that we become what we are."
Leonardo da Vinci
Artist, Scientist, Inventor
"Experience is a truer guide than the words of others."
Moliere
Playwright, Actor
"Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were."
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"You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
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"To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest."
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"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."
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"Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them."
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"Mistakes - call them unexpected learning experiences."
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"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom."
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"There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."
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"The education of circumstances is superior to that of tuition."
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"What you really value is what you miss, not what you have."
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"I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her."
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"A liberal: someone who thinks he knows more about your experience than you do."
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"Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again."
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"If you learn from an experience, that's good - so nothing bad happened to you."
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"We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author."
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"You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences."
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"We had the experience, but we missed the meaning."
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"Experience teaches only the teachable."
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"We learn the rope of life by untying its knots."
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"I think experience will teach you a combination of liberalism and conservatism. We have to be progressive and at the same time we have to retain values. We have to hold onto the past as we explore the future."
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"I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience."
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