Experience

(227 votes)   Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1806-1861, British Poet

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(227 votes)   Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(211 votes)   In our existence, absolutely anything that would refer to its self, as evil to evil and good to good would lead to the annulment of the actual reference, so it is absolutely necessary for a final referent to exist, that is in no way the same as the reference.

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(188 votes)   Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.

Lord Alfred Tennyson
1809-1892, British Poet

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(173 votes)   Human beings hardly ever learn from the experience of others. They learn; when they do, which isn't often, on their own, the hard way.

Robert Heinlein
1907-1988, American Science Fiction Writer

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(168 votes)   To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(158 votes)   Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

Cleveland Amory
American Animal Rights Activist

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(154 votes)   In the beginning any man will say that he does Good, because this is the only way in which we can have a morality or a normality that would lead us to the path we seek so much, that leading to perfection, because even if man is really sinful he can be made to adhere to perfection and his self determination as a totally changed being and opposed to his self.

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(152 votes)   Man himself, if he hadn’t the psychological capacity to deny, he couldn’t understand the world, as the entire world is a big denial which continuously denies itself.

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(151 votes)   Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(149 votes)   Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

Alphonse De Lamartine
1790-1869, French Poet, Statesman, Historian

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(137 votes)   Man through his essence is a dual being of Good and Evil that are a part of man’s self that he can never chase away from him, because if he tries to chase away Evil to keep only Good, Man becomes an alien to himself, transforming the Good he leans to into the biggest and most evident Evil as possible, that of self determining as a being dehumanized by its own being.

Sorin Cerin
philosopher

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(136 votes)   Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Franklin P. Jones

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(122 votes)   Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(118 votes)   There are those who think they can play you like a fiddle.I never tell them they are bad musicians, I just pluck their strings!

Carl Stoynoff
poet/philosopher

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