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All teachings are mere references. The true experience is living your own life. Then, even the holiest of words are only words. ↗

— Deng Ming-Dao

#experience #holy-books #life #living #religion

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience. ↗

— Kirby Larson

#teaching #experience

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

#school #teacher #wisdom #experience

Experience is the best teacher I've ever had. I'm sorry, Mr. Sortz, but it's true. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #teacher #experience

The years teach us much, which the days never knew. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#learning #life-lessons #teaching #experience

One cannot always know what children are thinking. Children are hard to understand, especially when careful training has accustomed them to obedience, and experience has made them cautious in their conversation with their teachers. Will you not draw from this the fine maxim that one should not scold children too much, but should make them trustful, so that they will not conceal their stupidities from us? ↗

— Catherine the Great

#teaching #experience

There is no humility in calling yourself a Christian; placing Christ in the role of colleague. The humility lies in the truth of your imperfection and a more accurate description as a student of Christianity; placing Christ back in the role as head teacher. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#christian #humility #imperfection #teacher #experience

Go out with me. This weekend.” I’m sure I look like one of those wrinkle dogs with the really big eyes, because they’re wide and staring and I can’t help it. “Like a date.” “A date?” “A date.” Snicker. “I can’t seem to get enough of you. ↗

— Nyrae Dawn

#teagan #dating

One of the most important elements in teaching, conducting, and performing, all three, is listening. ↗

— Itzhak Perlman

#elements #important #listening #most #performing

Experience teaches that the fire of mental grief is intensified by being confined to its own hearth. ↗

— Fr James Groenings

#grief #loneliness #experience