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“One has to taste an experience for oneself and find out if the thing is genuine or helpful. Then, before discarding something, one has to go further, so that one gets firsthand experience.”

Ifs Taste Experience Oneself Genuine Helpful

Author:Chogyam Trungpa

“The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.”

Men Taste Genuine Uncertain

Author:W. H. Auden

“Helping children at a level of genuine intellectual inquiry takes imagination on the part of the adult. Even more, it takes the courage to become a resource in unfamiliar areas of knowledge and in ones for which one has no taste. But parents, no less than teachers, must respect a child's mind and not exploit it for their own vanity or ambition, or to soothe their own anxiety.”

Mind Children Helping Parent Imagination Levels Teacher Taste Anxiety Ambition Intellectual Adults Resources Areas Genuine Vanity Inquiry Exploits Unfamiliar Helping Children

Author:Dorothy H Cohen

“Defining yourself by your taste is easier than defining yourself by any genuine stance on something.”

Easier Taste Genuine Defining Stance Define Yourself

Author:Noah Baumbach

“The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto the entire volume of sub-literary fiction produced for mass taste. But it is probably not lower than, for instance, that of another somewhat shady sub-genre with a few first-rate books to its credit, science fiction.”

Firsts May Book Literature Fiction Novel Taste Mass Science Fiction Rate Credit Genuine Instance Genre Volume Pornography Trash Ratios Shady

Author:Susan Sontag

“People may go on talking for ever of the jealousies of pretty women; but for real genuine, hard-working envy, there is nothing like an ugly woman with a taste for admiration.”

People May Real Hard Talking Hard Work Goes On Taste Ugly Envy Genuine Jealousy Admiration Pretty Woman Ugly Women

Book:The Semi-attached Couple

Source: The Semi-attached Couple

“If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.”

Ifs Knows Want Change Knowledge Learning Military Theory Revolution Taste Eating Direct Method Genuine Pears Knowledge And Experience Knowledge Experience Chinese Revolution

Book:Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works

Source: Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works