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"Custom, then, is the great guide of human life. It is that principle alone, which renders our experience useful to us, and makes us expect, for the future, a similar train of events with those which have appeared in the past."
"In those days a concert was a personal experience. I wanted to be as close as possible to the audience and of course big stadiums didn't enable you to do that. It wasn't my style."
"The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket."
"I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven."
"Problems cannot be solved with words, but only through experience."
"Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form."
"Experience converts us to ourselves when books fail us."
"You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience."
"Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas."
"Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time."
"We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form."
"Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified."
"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
"Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other."
"Humans hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn - when they do, which isn't often - on their own, the hard way."
"People are experience-rich and theory-poor."
"Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it."
"I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of."
"The lessons of experience are always learned too late."
"In one and the same human being there are cognitions that, however utterly dissimilar they are, yet have one and the same object,so that one can only conclude that there are different subjects in one and the same human being."
