Quotes by Experience In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer. Henri Poincare observation experience science It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations. Henry A. Kissinger experience historical past All the experience of the greatest city in the world could not withhold me. Henry Williamson cities-in-the-world experience cities God sends experience to paint men's portraits. Henry Ward Beecher portraits experience men Experience is never limited, and it is never complete Henry James spiders tissues experience We are older by faith than by experience. Henry David Thoreau experience faith Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament. Friedrich Nietzsche experience use men Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. Hosea Ballou tangible experience theory The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought. Hosea Ballou experience add inspirational Experience is retrospect knowledge. Hosea Ballou retrospect experience Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth. Friedrich Nietzsche experience purpose thinking Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe. Friedrich Nietzsche generations experience sight I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate. Howie Mandel experience needed writing The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage. Henry David Thoreau savages experience men The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience. Henry David Thoreau experience beautiful sex Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions. Idi Amin experience lessons men Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced. Henry David Thoreau experience friendship art If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels. Henry David Thoreau experience angel men everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue. Ilka Chase experience humans passing-away It is only through failure and through experiment that we learn and grow. Isaac Stern failure experience grows «678910111213141516»
