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Each experience through which we pass operates ultimately for our good. This is a correct attitude to adopt and we must be able to see it in that light.

Raymond Holliwell

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If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

John R. Miller

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

George Bernard Shaw

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Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college.

Lillian Smith

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Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which has been cutting away at our life statue, molding, modifying, shaping it. We are part of all we have met. Everything we have seen, heard, felt, or thought has had its hand in molding us, shaping us

Orison Swett Marden

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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Hosea Ballou

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Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

William E. Channing

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Our knowledge is the amassed thought and experience of innumerable minds.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.

Carl Rogers

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All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

Sir Philip Sidney

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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

Saint Teresa Of Avila

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An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Alfred North Whitehead

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One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Author Unknown

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All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

Anna Jameson

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Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

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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

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Judgment is forced upon us by experience.

Johnson

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To be listened to is, generally speaking, a nearly unique experience for most people. It is enormously stimulating. It is small wonder that people who have been demanding all their lives to be heard so often fall speechless when confronted with one who gravely agrees to lend an ear. Man clamors for the freedom to express himself and for knowing that he counts. But once offered these conditions, he becomes frigthened.

Robert C. Murphy

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I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes.

Earl of Chesterfield

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Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol, and an audience is electrified.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.

George Washington

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Children are born true scientists. They spontaneously experiment and experience and reexperience again. They select, combine, and test, seeking to find order in their experiences - "which is the mostest? which is the leastest?" They smell, taste, bite, and touch-test for hardness, softness, springiness, roughness, smoothness, coldness, warmness: the heft, shake, punch, squeeze, push, crush, rub, and try to pull things apart.

R. Buckminster Fuller

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Experience shows that success is due less to ability that to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul.

Charles Buxton

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All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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