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Quotes About Experience

Design is not for philosophy it's for life.
~ Issey Miyake
Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he 'lives' his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.
~ Frances Hesselbein
This Life is More than Just a read through.
~ Anthony Kiedis
If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
~ W.C. Fields
But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.
~ George Eliot
Most of my learning and philosophy regarding coaching basketball was developed after great frustration.
~ Dick Bennett
Persons who have been homeless carry within them a certain philosophy of life which makes them apprehensive about ownership.
~ Jerzy Kosinski
I learned much more about acting from philosophy courses, psychology courses, history and anthropology than I ever learned in acting class.
~ Tim Robbins
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
~ Hannah Arendt
Imagining something is better than remembering something.
~ John Irving
As I look back on it now, it's obvious that studying history and philosophy was much better preparation for the stock market than, say, studying statistics.
~ Peter Lynch
Perception is not something that happens to us, or in us. It is something we do.
~ Alva Noe
We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.
~ Thomas Hanna
Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.
~ Guy Debord
What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.
~ C. S. Lewis
You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been.
~ Amy Winehouse
The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.
~ William Harvey
The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.
~ Alain de Botton
How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.
~ Alice Cary
Travel is never a matter of money but of courage
~ Paulo Coelho, Aleph
If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche