Experience Quotes
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"Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life."
-Henry David Thoreau
-Henry David Thoreau
"Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experiences."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
-Eleanor Roosevelt
-Eleanor Roosevelt
"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
-Mark Twain
-Mark Twain
"Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
-George Washington
-George Washington
"If you take all the experience and judgment of men over fifty out of the world, there wouldn't be enough left to run it."
-Henry Ford
-Henry Ford
"Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
-Aldous Huxley
-Aldous Huxley
"Experience is pure gold. Experience is what you get when you don't get what you wanted."
-Ann Landers
-Ann Landers
"You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
-Albert Camus
-Albert Camus
"It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed."
-Ram Dass
-Ram Dass
"The divorced person is like a man with a black patch over one eye: He looks rather dashing but the fact is that he has been through a maiming experience."
-Jo Coudert
-Jo Coudert
"A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another."
-P. Bourget
-P. Bourget
"Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
-Immanuel Kant
-Immanuel Kant
"The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience, the task of surviving prosperity."
-Alan Gregg
-Alan Gregg
"Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you."
-Katherine Anne Porter
-Katherine Anne Porter
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."
-Franklin P. Jones
-Franklin P. Jones
"I've always been spontaneous and outgoing... I've tried lots of things so I've got some good life experiences, which is great 'cause it means I've got lots of material to work with as an actor."
-Leonardo Dicaprio
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-Leonardo Dicaprio
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