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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

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You can have all the schooling you want, it doesn't make you a bit smarter or wiser. It is experience through the act of doing that is the greatest teacher. ↗

— R. G. Risch

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If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn’t work. ↗

— Alice Bag

#self-defense #violence #experience

Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie. ↗

— James Patterson

#eat #food #experience

Why aren't crazy people content to take over, like, one town? It always has to be the whole word. They can't just control maybe twenty people. The have to control everyone. The can't just be stinking rich. The can't just do genetic experiments on a couple unlucky few. They have to put something in the water. In the air. To get everyone. I was tired of all of it. ↗

— James Patterson

#villains #experience

But my philosophy is that plot advancement is not what the experience of reading fiction is about. If all we care about is advancing the plot, why read novels? We can just read Cliffs Notes. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

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I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself. ↗

— G.I. Gurdjieff

#experience #experience

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience. ↗

— Edward de Bono

#break #creativity #experience #free #need

Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opes a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#drugs #experience

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life. ↗

— Eudora Welty

#discovering #effect #experience #happenings #life