Quotes of: Ralph-waldo-emerson Keyword

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.

V. S. Pritchett

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Chinua Achebe

I'm not altogether certain that a fundamentalism of necessity has to argue that it is the only reading of the human experience in order to stay alive.

Chaim Potok

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche

But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

George Eliot

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

Gail Godwin

Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.

Gao Xingjian

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Henry Ford

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Herbert Read

A spy, like a writer, lives outside the mainstream population. He steals his experience through bribes and reconstructs it.

John le Carre

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

Judy Chicago

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

Jonathan Safran Foer

If anyone wonders why the airlines are not doing well it is because flying has been made such an unpleasant and degrading experience.

Keith Henson

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Katherine Anne Porter

Poetry is innocent, not wise. It does not learn from experience, because each poetic experience is unique.

Karl Shapiro

Everybody's got one killer story. It doesn't take talent to tell that story, it just takes experience.

Kevin Smith

Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.

Leonard Mlodinow

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

Lauren Oliver

I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.

Mohsin Hamid

Ends and purposes, whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies, form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

Muhammad Iqbal

The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

Muhammad Iqbal