97 Metaphors for experience

With such people experience is the only taskmaster possible.

First, this experience is an end in itself, is worth having on its own account, has an intrinsic value.

This is a misfortune, as experience is a quality of which the House is apt to run short.

My experience has been a bitter oneeverywhere treachery and deceit.

The experience which Wordsworth was so anxious others should share was the following.

Though the experiences of Jane Eyre were not, except in comparatively unimportant episodes, the experiences of the authoress, Jane Eyre is Charlotte Brontë.

" "II assure you, Miss Mayton, that my experience has been the reverse of a pleasant one.

Experience taught us this: but then experience is only an empiric at the best.

Jennie's experience and her rather interesting range of friends were a Godsend.

I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.

Sometimes I think that the dreadful experience I have been passing through is God's way of baptizing me; some have to be baptized with suffering.

In other words, experience is only a phenomenon; it is not knowledge of the thing-in-itself.

"Experience is the very best teacher, you know.

" As he folded the cot Mr. Hyde opined that worldly experience must indeed be a fine thing to possess.

They were Celts, Catholics, and men of the tenant class to a man; and their whole experience of the British Government had been an inexorable landlord, and a constabulary who seemed to them to be always on the side of the rent-collector.

The whole experience of the past days had been a Jehannum of incomprehensible terrors.

In all literature the knowledge gained objectively, whether of action or emotion, is a preparation for life; but this intimate experience of emotion in connection with an imagined world is a more vital preparation, and enters more directly, easily, and effectually into men's bosoms.

Johnson's own experience, however, of that gentleman's reserve was a sufficient reason for his going on thus: 'Fox never talks in private company; not from any determination not to talk, but because he has not the first motion.

And though the experiences they desire may be matters of everyday occurrence to us, children probably feel the craving even more keenly.

As she lay there thinking over the matter, and trying to make herself believe that the afternoon's experience was the effect of the wind or her own fancy, she was startled by a step on the floor of the lower roomthe same light step.

They suggest that our natural experience, our strictly moralistic and prudential experience, may be only a fragment of real human experience.

Here the child's first experience was another course of surgical torture.

Rhythm of the spirit is necessary to comprehend music in its essence; music imparts presentiments, inspirations of divine science, and what the spirit experiences of the sensuous in it is the embodiment of spiritual knowledge.

I have heard it remarked that experience is the preceptor of fools, but that the wise need not its instruction.

CHAPTER XX GAINING EXPERIENCE THROUGH FREEDOM "The atmosphere of freedom is the only atmosphere in which a child can gain experiences that will help to develop character.

97 Metaphors for  experience