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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. – Douglas Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. – George Bernard Shaw	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. – Ralph Waldo Emerson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There is nothing so easy to learn as experience and nothing so hard to apply. – Josh Billings	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It's a wise man who profits by his own experience, but it's a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow. – Josh Billings	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive. – Erica Jong	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration, from the cautious quest for what they knew (or what they thought they knew) was out there, to an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. – Daniel J. Boorstin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. – Johann von Goethe	added by anonymous 14 years ago
By three methods we may learn wisdom First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience. – M Scott Peck	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficial. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. – Louis D. Brandeis	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. – Mark Twain	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do. – Roosevelt, Eleanor	added by anonymous 14 years ago
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do. – Roosevelt, Eleanor	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. – Roosevelt, Eleanor	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. – Charles Simic	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. – Woody Allen	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into common places, but which all experience refutes. – John Stuart Mill	added by anonymous 14 years ago
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The experience of this sweet life. L'esperienza de questa dolce vita. – Dante Alighieri	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. – Kahlil Gibran	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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