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• Quote 3162

  We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

  by: William James

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• Quote 3154

  If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

  by: William James

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• Quote 3113

  Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

  by: Henry James

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• Quote 3003

  Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it

  by: John Burroughs

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• Quote 2992

  The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible of

  by: Calvin Milton Woodward

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• Quote 2980

  We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again

  by: Hyppolyte Taine

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• Quote 2942

  No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2936

  There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2913

  What worries you, masters you

  by: John Locke

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• Quote 2881

  What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

  by: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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• Quote 2759

  Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust

  by: Karl Kraus

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• Quote 2721

  I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me

  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2713

  Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some

  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2707

  A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it

  by: John Keats

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• Quote 2468

  Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2467

  Error is discipline through which we advance

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2465

  Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost

  by: William Ellery Channing

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• Quote 2250

  Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked

  by: Robert Browning

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• Quote 2245

  None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free

  by: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

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• Quote 2166

  Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand

  by: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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• Quote 2159

  Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent

  by: Louis Dembitz Brandeis

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• Quote 2126

  And we are put on earth a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love

  by: William Blake

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• Quote 2092

  The true method of knowledge is experiment.

  by: William Blake

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• Quote 2078

  The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough

  by: William Blake

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• Quote 1986

  Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators

  by: Amos Bronson Alcott

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