"Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it."
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"I'm older and older. With any experience you have, you know more about yourself."
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"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
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"We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life."
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"A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement."
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"When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes."
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"It's my experience that you really can't lose when you try the truth."
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"Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and which can only be a consequence of their inability to perceive clearly the relation between these two subjects, introduced much obscurity and confusion into their explanations."
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"To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them."
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"It is a far worthier thing to read by the light of experience than to adorn oneself with the labors of others."
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"Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had."
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"Experience is the universal mother of sciences."
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"Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction."
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"Experience is the best teacher, but a fool will learn from no other."
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"I do not recognize these as defeats. They are but interesting experiences of life. They are valuable stepping stones to success."
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"There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience."
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"A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it - by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."
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"Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced."
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"Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience."
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"Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
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