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So begin with the experience and investigate the cause. Inside the Mind of Leonardo starring Peter Capaldi, Sky Arts 2013
There are bad times just around the corner,
There are dark clouds hurtling through the sky
And it’s no good whining
About a silver lining
For we know from experience that they won’t roll by. Noel Coward, There are Bad Times Just Around the Corner, song 1953
Always appear what you are. And you will not pass through existence without enjoying its genuine blessings. Love and respect. Let not the springtide of existence pass away unenjoyed. Gain experience. Mary Wollstonecraft
I shall certainly admit a system as empirical or scientific only if it is capable of being tested by experience. These considerations suggest that not the verifiability but the falsifiability of a system is to be taken as a criterion of demarcation … It must be possible for an empirical scientific system to be refuted by experience. Karl Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery
It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. Albert Einstein, The Herbert Spencer lecture 10th June 1933
The theoretician is forced, ever more, to allow himself to be directed by purely mathematical, formal points of view in the search for theories, because the physical experience of the experimenter is not capable of leading us up to the regions of the highest abstraction. Albert Einstein, cited Ideas and Opinions, 1954
The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them. Albert Einstein, cited Principles of Research 1918
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Albert Einstein, My World-View, 1931
A human being is a part of the whole called by us ‘Universe’, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest – a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. The striving to free oneself from this delusion is the one issue of true religion. Not to nourish it but to try to overcome it is the way to reach the attainable measure of peace of mind. Albert Einstein, letter 12 February 1950, cited and translated Calaprice
Science aims at constructing a world which shall be symbolic of the world of commonplace experience. It is not at all necessary that every individual symbol that is used should represent something in common experience or even something explicable in terms of common experience. Arthur Eddington, The Nature of the Physical World, 1928
All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci, notebooks
Paint From Your Experience. Robert Lyon, advice to pitmen painters
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. Douglas Adams
Experience is the father of wisdom. Mid-16th century proverb
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Experience is merely the name men give to their mistakes. ibid.
Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing. Oscar Wilde
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
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. Friedrich Nietzsche
If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out of our comfort zone. Jordan Maxwell
You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing. Author unknown, cited Arnold Bax, Farewell My Youth, 1943
Better once than never, for never too late. William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew V i 141, Petruchio
Sometimes it is more important to discover what we cannot do, than what we can. Lin Yutang
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley, Texts & Pretexts, 1932
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Auguste Rodin
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Paulo Coelho
We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power in trying to hold back time when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world. Paul Coelho, The Witch of Portobello p247
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Eleanor Roosevelt
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Voltaire
You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. Albert Camus
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. Chinua Achebe
Two things control men’s nature, instinct and experience. Blaise Pascal
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. Joseph Roux
I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience. Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
Talent means nothing, while experience, acquired in humility and with hard work, means everything. Patrick Süskind, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things – childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves – that go on slipping, like sand, through our fingers. Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism 1981-1991
Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth. Malcolm X
Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient. Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man