Glossary of Inspirational Quotes that Rekindle the Soul
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| Quote:The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.[Saint Augustine] Quote:A second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.[Samuel Johnson] Quote:Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go, it's pretty damn good.[Woody Allen] Quote:If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.[Isaac Disraeli] Quote:I believe we are born with our minds open to wonderful experiences, and only slowly learn to limit ourselves to narrow tastes. We are taught to lose our curiosity by the bludgeon-blows of mass marketing, which brainwash us to see 'hits,' and discourage exploration.[Roger Ebert] Quote:For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.[Benjamin Franklin] Quote:Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.[Theodore Roosevelt] Quote:It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.[Albert Einstein] Quote:The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.[Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.[Confucius] Quote:A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.[Oliver Wendell Holmes] Quote:Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; the beasts, by nature.[Marcus Tullius Cicero] Quote:A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in on the experience.[Elbert Hubbard] Quote:If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.[Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote:In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.[Ansel Adams] Quote:There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of nature and the revelations of great art are equally difficult to define; we can grasp them only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.[Ansel Adams] Quote:If one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation would be a very poor business.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.[C.S. Lewis] Quote:I think it's insulting to people who have a heritage of slavery to compare the homosexual experience in America to that. It's an unfortunate, cheap attempt to piggyback on something and to co-opt life experiences of others, claim that you've experienced them yourselves so that you can advance a cause.[Rush Limbaugh] Quote:Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.[Aldous Huxley] Quote:I think men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelry.[Rita Rudner] Quote:Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.[Friedrich Nietzsche] Quote:One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:But then there's a moment like tonight, a profound and transcendent experience, the feeling as if a door has opened, and it's all because of that instrument, that incredible, magical instrument. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:Life here is so elemental. So real. Without the interference of civilization you can really experience things like,...silence. Silence and darkness in its purity. Right now, right outside my window all I can see is a black void. Endless darkness. It's totally exhilarating, and I feel very lucky to be here. Very, very lucky. [Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider] Quote:The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. [Mark Twain] Quote:Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. [Douglas Adams] Quote:Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. [George Bernard Shaw] Quote:Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. [Edward R. Murrow] Quote:You must pray that the way be long, full of adventures and experiences. [Hippocrates] Quote:It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies. [Bette Davis] Quote:You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another. [Oprah Winfrey] Quote:You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. [Albert Camus] Quote:Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. [Helen Keller] Quote:People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. [Eleanor Roosevelt] Quote: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] Quote:It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. [Abraham Lincoln] Quote:Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. [Anton Chekhov] Quote:Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. [H. L. Mencken] Quote:Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. [Max Frisch] Quote:I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. [William James] Quote:The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. [Benjamin Disraeli] Quote:Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. [James Boswell] Quote:Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. [James Boswell] Quote:Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. [Douglas Adams] Quote:It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. [Woody Allen] Quote:Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. [Douglas Adams] Quote:Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. [Douglas Adams] Definitions of: experienceDefinition: Trial, as a test or experiment.Definition: The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering. Definition: An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war. |
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