If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us. But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the stern, which shines only on the waves behind us.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeTags: wisdom experience
God himself culminates in the present moment, and will never be more divine in the lapse of all the ages.
Henry David ThoreauTags: experience
only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.
Rainer Maria RilkeTags: experience relationships openness
most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.
Rainer Maria RilkeTags: experience security
Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: life experience favorite-author
Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions . . . by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.
Malcolm GladwellTags: experience intuition nature-vs-nurture first-impression thin-slicing
Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . .
Ralph Waldo EmersonTags: art perception experience emotion illusion
The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.
Brooks AtkinsonTags: experience perspective close-mindedness inexperience point-of-view open-mindeness
Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.
Michael OakeshottTags: experience rationalism
The word 'experienced' often refers to someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more frequently than you have.
Laurence GonzalesTags: experience survival
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