"When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser."

Experience, Temptation

19

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"When one cannot appraise out of one's own experience, the temptation to blunder is minimized, but even when one can, appraisal seems chiefly useful as appraisal of the appraiser."

Exlpore more Experience quotes

"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, American Author

Experience, Learning, Growth, Life

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Experience, Adventure, Memory, Choice, Risk

"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."

Dada Bhagwan, Indian Spiritual Leader

Experience, Pain, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Experience, Read, Book, Write, Life

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

Experience, Work, Life, Memory

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Experience, Sensation, Contrast, Enjoyment

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

Stephen King, American Author

Experience, Truth, Reality, Fear, Today

"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Experience, Question, Memory, Pain

"What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Experience, Curiosity, Adventure, Risk, Reality

"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Experience, Age, Insight, Wisdom

Explore more quotes by Marianne Moore

"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."

Writer

"Superior people never make long visits."

People

"Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others."

Authenticity

"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt."

Doubt

"In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity."

Writing

"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."

Poetry

19

Standard

Customized

Exlpore more Experience quotes

"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."

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

"How long does the experience of pleasure or pain stay with you? For as long as there is weakness within. Then, further ahead they will not be there. There, one remains the 'Knower' of experience of pleasure and pain."

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

"Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine."

"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."

"Mr Lorry asks the witness questions:Ever been kicked? Might have been.Frequently? No. Ever kicked down stairs? Decidedly not; once received a kick at the top of a staircase, and fell down stairs of his own accord."

"Elders in the dark see better than children in the light."

Explore more quotes by Marianne Moore

"If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist."

"Superior people never make long visits."

"Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others."

"Psychology which explains everything explains nothing, and we are still in doubt."

"In a poem the excitement has to maintain itself. I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of a fabric is governed by gravity."

"A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself."

"It is human nature to stand in the middle of a thing."

"The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease."

"My father used to say superior people never make long visits."

"I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it."