"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."

Experience, Creativity, Mind

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"The mind uses its faculty for creativity only when experience forces it to do so."

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

Karl Shapiro, American Poet

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"I just came into my own sexuality at thirty. I don't think it's something you can deeply experience at 18 or any time before that."

Eva Longoria, American Actress

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"It was like making a blunder at a party; there was nothing to do about it, it was dreadfully mortifying, but it showed a lack of sense to ascribe too much importance to it."

W. Somerset Maugham, British Playwright

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"Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!"

Karl Liebknecht, German Politician

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"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it."

Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch Philosopher

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"I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me."

Celine Dion, Canadian Musician

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"We are all the sum of a million moments in our lives."

Carla H. Krueger, American Author

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"Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds."

Rene Daumal, French Writer

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"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all."

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"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."

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"Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover."

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"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."

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"No more than these machines need the mathematician know what he does."

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"Geometry is not true, it is advantageous."

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"Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority."

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"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things."

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"Mathematicians are born, not made."

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"If we knew exactly the laws of nature and the situation of the universe at the initial moment, we could predict exactly the situation of the same universe at a succeeding moment."

Nature, Laws, Universe