"Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions."

Experience, Knowledge, Worth, Years

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"Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions."

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"As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself."

Richard Thompson, British Musician

Experience, Song, Writer, Writing

"I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy."

Norman Jewison, Canadian Director

Experience, Comedy, Romantic

"You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever."

Bob Dylan, American Musician

Experience, Past

"Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience."

John Updike, American Novelist

Experience, Ecstasy, Existence

"Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian Author

Experience, Name, Words, Novelist

"What happens to you during Life may seem out of your control; how you perceive each experience, however... good or bad... is totally up to you."

Donald L. Hicks, American Author

Experience, Control, Perception, Choice

"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Experience, Discovery, Wine, Joy

"The internet has become such a great tool not just for chefs but for everyone. The net has given everyone the tools to see and almost experience new and different ideas."

Graham Kerr, English Celebrity

Experience, Ideas, Internet, Tools

"It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience."

Berthe Morisot, French Artist

Experience, Feelings

"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."

Sara Sheridan, Scottish Author

Experience, Taste, Drink, Calmness

Explore more quotes by John Bates Clark

"We cannot afford to have any large section of the business world in doubt whether they have broken the laws or not, and we cannot let the laws become a dead letter through vagueness. In this view it is clear that an administrative commission can render invaluable service."

Business, Doubt, Laws, Service

"If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves."

Man, Men, Court, Gain, Violence

"The limit is not as narrow as it might be. I do not claim for this action, as it now goes on, an ideal degree of efficiency. What I do claim is that this type of competition already reveals its nature and its ultimate power to hold seeming monopolies in check."

Nature, Power, Action, Competition

"A laborer no longer makes whole articles. He receives raw materials, puts his touch on them, and passes them to another worker in the series. When the articles are quite finished they are carried out of sight by currents of commercial exchange. These currents are untraceable."

Economy, Sight

"The first issue to be settled is whether socialism has a right to exist Are its allegations concerning the present system true? Is industry proceeding on a principle of fraud? I wish to test the power of recent economic theory to give an exact answer to this question."

Power, First, Fraud, Present

"If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins."

Income, Isolation, Living, Man

"In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was held that the seller of a patented mimeograph could bind the purchaser to use only his ink in the machine, though the ink was not patented."

Decision-Making, Decision, Court, Machine

"The decree of a coercive tribunal would not need to conform to the true standard of wages, the final productivity of social labor. It would introduce into distribution a genuinely arbitrary element, with a very large ultimate power to pervert the natural system."

Power, Labor, Productivity, Wages

"Experience alone can give a final answer. The knowledge gained in a few years by a commission of the kind suggested would be worth more than volumes of mere assertions and contradictions."

Experience, Knowledge, Worth, Years

"Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan."

Negative, Man, Present