"Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature."

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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."

Gerald R. Ford, American President

Experience, History, Progress, Confusion

"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."

Warren Farrell, American Writer

Experience, America, Communism, Growingup

"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."

Doug Larson, American Cartoonist

Experience, Learning, Trouble

"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas."

Harvey S. Firestone, American Businessman

Experience, Business, Ideas

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

Karl Shapiro, American Poet

Experience, Poetry

"And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are."

Neale Donald Walsch, American Author

Experience, People, Challenge, Consciousness

"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

Experience, Time, Sexuality

"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."

Trofim Lysenko, Russian Celebrity

Experience, Nature, Facts, Living

"Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force."

Charles E. Wilson, American Businessman

Experience, Canada, Force, Logic

"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

Experience, Mistake, Humor, Life, Embarrassment

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"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."

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"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."

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"The only cure for grief is action."

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"The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions."

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"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."

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"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."

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"Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."

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"History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion."

"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."

"The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate."

"Capital isn't that important in business. Experience isn't that important. You can get both of these things. What is important is ideas."

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

"And we're seeing a higher level of consciousness and many more opportunities for people to challenge their present ways of thinking and move into a grander and larger experience of who they really are."

"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."

"Darwin investigated the numerous facts obtained by naturalists in living nature and analysed them through the prism of practical experience."

"Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force."

"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."

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"Literature delivers tidings of the world within and the world without."

"The public can only be really moved by what is genuine."

"A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet."

"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."

"It is unhappily true that much insincere Literature and Art, executed solely with a view to effect, does succeed by deceiving the public."

"The only cure for grief is action."

"The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions."

"The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected."

"When a man fails to see the truth of certain generally accepted views, there is no law compelling him to provoke animosity by announcing his dissent."

"Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength."