experience Quotes

“But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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“Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

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“Experience is the name Tuppy gives to his mistakes.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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“But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

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“Moreover, the act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety.”

― Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams

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“ENTHUSIASM, n. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.”

― Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

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“Welcome, O life, I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.”

― James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

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“This is as plain as a nose in a man's face; you know it by experience; you see it.”

― François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel

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“Most of us spend a good part of our lives in clearing our minds of the notions that sprang up unchecked during our nonage. This is called 'getting our experience.'”

― Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions

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“the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

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