E Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with E. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Experience serves to prove that the worth and strength of a state depend far less upon the form of its institutions than upon the character of its men; for the nation is only the aggregate of individual conditions, and civilization itself is but a question of personal, improvement.”
Source: Self-help; with Illustrations of Character, Conduct, and Perseverance
“Experience shapes you, and heartbreak defines you.”
Source: Cold Hearted Casanova
“experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.”
Source: My Days
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding."
[Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928) (dissenting)]”
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.”
“Experience shows that after a disaster it is particularly difficult with the Americans, who appear to be quite cowardly despite their Rambo films.”
“Experience shows that Being is the essential, basic nature of the mind; but, since It commonly remains in tune with the senses projecting outwards toward the manifested realms of creation, the mind misses or fails to appreciate its own essential nature, just as the eyes are unable to see themselves.”
Source: The Science of Being and Art of Living
“Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there is an inseparable link between peace with creation and peace among men.”
Source: The Garden of God
“Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order in the Gulf region, and to help those members of civil and ethnic minorities who continue to suffer through no fault of their own. If we succeed, our military success will have achieved its true objective.”
“Experience shows that if a sufficiently deep level--not necessarily the deepest level but one that corresponds to what the yogis call savikalpa samadhi, which is not as deep as nirvikalpa--if that can be attained and then prolonged sufficiently in time, an artist or a writer can draw from the experience creative power for his work.”
Source: Advanced contemplation: The peace within you
“Experience shows that nothing is operated with less economy and with more waste of labor and material of every kind than public services and undertakings. Private enterprise on the other hand naturally induces the owner to work with the greatest economy in his own interest.”
Source: Socialism - An Economic and Sociological Analysis: The Economist
“Experience shows that, once you start using the business storytelling process, you are unlikely to return to your old methods.”
“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal.”
“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work, body and soul. Charles Buxton To succeed ... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.”
“Experience shows that the frequent use of severe punishment has never rendered a people better. The death of a criminal is a less effective means of restraining crimes than the permanent example of a man deprived of his liberty during the whole of his life to make amends for the injury he has done to the public.”
“Experience shows that the success of a programming course critically depends on the choice of these examples.”
“Experience shows that what great role pratice and experience play in education; pratice, the prolonged exercice lead to habit: exemple suggests imitation. Habit can become a second nature, but, wrongly directed (or guided), it may also heighten (or intensify) unfortunate tendencies and be an obstacle to progress.”
“Experience shows that what happens is always the thing against which one has not made provision in advance.”
“Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.”
Source: Sappho
“Experience soon taught me never to write about anything important to me - the Māoris, animals, the unemployed men, the empty boarded-up houses that frightened me. The subsequent trampling of my sensibilities would have destroyed me. Soon everything I wrote came only from my imagination.”
Source: A Fence Around the Cuckoo
“Experience stands on its own dunghill in medicine, and reason yields it place. Medicine has always professed experience to be the touchstone of its operations.”
“Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.”
Source: Cordelia's Honor
“Experience suggests that the first rule of politics is never to say never. The ingenious human capacity for maneuver and compromise may make acceptable tomorrow what seems outrageous or impossible today.”
“Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.”
“Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Carlyle
“Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”
Source: Trump: The Art of the Deal
“Experience taught me that working families are often just one pay check away from economic disaster. And it showed me first-hand the importance of every family having access to good health care.”
“Experience taught me to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper.”
Source: Trump: The Art of the Deal
“Experience teaches a man to learn by his own error”
“Experience teaches acceptance of the imperfect as life.”
“Experience teaches effectually, but brutally. It makes us acquainted with all the effects of an action, by causing us to feel them; and we cannot fail to finish by knowing that fire burns, if we have burned ourselves. For this rough teacher, I should like, if possible, to substitute a more gentle one. I mean Foresight. For this purpose I shall examine the consequences of certain economical phenomena, by placing in opposition to each other those which are seen, and those which are not seen.”
“Experience teaches everything.”
“Experience teaches nothing, but evaluated experience teaches everything.”
Source: The Complete 101 Collection
“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
Source: Selected essays
“Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.”
Source: Short Studies on Great Subjects
“Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.”
“Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less "perfect".”
Source: Sexuality and The Psychology of Love
“Experience teaches that the time to buy stocks is when their price is unduly depressed by temporary adversity. In other words, they should be bought on a bargain basis or not at all.”
Source: The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel
“Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on, or subject to troublesome inconveniences”
Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents
“Experience teaches us not to assume that the obvious is clearly understood”
Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation
“Experience teaches us only one thing at a time - and hardly that, in my case.”
Source: Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations
“Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: pt. II. Correspondence and miscellaneous papers relating to the American revolution: (v. 3) June, 1775-July, 1776. (v. 4) July, 1776-July] 1777. (v. 5) July, 1777-July, 1778. (v. 6) July, 1778-March, 1780. (v. 7) March, 1780-April, 1781. (v. 8) April, 1781-December, 1783
“Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.”
Source: The Lyrics: Since 1962
“Experience teaches us that the world is not a nursery.”
Source: New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
“Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them”
“Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.”
Source: Science And Health
“Experience teaches us that when "everyone" comes to the same conclusion, that conclusion is just about always wrong.”
Source: Contrarian Investment Strategies in the Next Generation
“Experience teaches us the events of a lifetime.”
“Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.”
“Experience teaches us when to wait and when to move forward.”
Source: The Father of Love