experience Quotes

“A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:nature experience science

“Poets act shamelessly towards their experiences: they exploit them.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

topic:experience poetry

“people never learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves.”

― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

topic:learning experience teaching

“A person who doesn’t learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.”

― Stephen King, 11/22/63

topic:learning experience past

“To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

topic:experience

“only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn’t exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

topic:experience relationship

“The general observations treasured up by a course of experience, give us the clue of human nature, and teach us to unravel all its intricacies. Pretexts and appearances no longer deceive us.”

― David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

topic:experience appearance

“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

topic:knowledge experience

“Many besides Angel have learnt that the magnitude of lives is not as to their external displacements, but as to their subjective experiences. The impressionable peasant leads a larger, fuller, more dramatic life than the pachydermatous king.”

― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles

topic:life experience

“We learn from failure, not from success!”

― Bram Stoker, Dracula

topic:experience success failure

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