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No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.
Hu Shih
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
I know by my own pot how the others boil.
Proverb
An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.
Alfred North Whitehead
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
Ambrose Bierce
We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung
I think we're the only jokeless show on television. I mean really, we have no setups and no punch lines. It's not a joke show. There are funny lines and funny moments but again the comedy is born of the human experience and awkward pauses are a great part of what it is to be human.
Rainn Wilson
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
C. S. Lewis
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
Ellen Glasgow
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt
I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
Ang Lee
By presenting a faithful and honest record of my experience as a mother, I hope to show both my readers and my children how truth can redeem even what you fear might be the gravest of sins.
Ayelet Waldman
How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
Alan Watts
I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
John Wooden
I had a heartbreaking experience when I was 9. I always wanted to be a guard. The most wonderful girl in the world was a guard. When I got polio and then went back to school, they made me a guard. A teacher took away my guard button.
Francis Ford Coppola
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Albert Bandura
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
Harry S. Truman
Producing is just a big learning experience.
Ashley Tisdale
Ages of experience have taught humanity that the commitment of a husband and wife to love and to serve one another promotes the welfare of children and the stability of society.
Jack Kingston
From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.
Aldous Huxley