Experiment Quotes (page 2)

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• mindfulness
• evening
• people

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large... Thomas Jefferson

• writing
• experience
• lived

Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing. Michael Pollan

• experience
• life
• look

Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence. Whittaker Chambers

• teacher
• god
• learning

Experience is a brutal teacher. But you'll learn..my god, you will learn. C. S. Lewis

• mistake
• people
• experience

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• travel
• education
• experience

Experience, travel - these are an education in themselves. Euripides

• running
• experience
• wall

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against. F. Scott Fitzgerald

• emotional
• experience
• history

Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery and emotional acceptance of the truth in the individual and unique history of our childhood. Alice Miller

• knowledge
• poetry
• experience

Experiment is the only means of knowledge at our disposal. Everything else is poetry, imagination. Max Planck

• experience
• experiments
• experiences

Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what. Mason Cooley

• mind
• ignorance
• mindfulness

Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be. John Stuart Mill

• him
• experience
• manly

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. Aldous Huxley

• teacher
• god
• learning

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn. My god, do you learn. C. S. Lewis

• people
• wishes
• perfect

Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect". Sigmund Freud

• people
• education
• new

Experiment! Meet new people. That’s better than any college education . . . By adventuring; about, you become accustomed to the unexpected. The unexpected then becomes what it really is . . . the inevitable. Amelia Earhart