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“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
— H. L. Mencken
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“The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.”
— Helen Keller
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“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
— George Eliot
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“The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.”
— Franklin P. Adams
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“My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything but whenever a divine force cheers on our voyage, then we believe that the same fate will always blow fair.”
— Aeschylus
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“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
— George Bernard Shaw
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“The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.”
— Franz Kafka
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“You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.”
— Woodrow Wilson
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“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.”
— Flannery O'Connor
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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
— C. S. Lewis
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“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
— Mark Twain
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“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
— Aldous Huxley
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“It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.”
— Albert Einstein
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“To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience ultimately one must have one's experiences in common.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
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“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
— Khalil Gibran
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“Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.”
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty d--n good.”
— Woody Allen
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“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
— Helen Keller
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“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
— Helen Keller
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.”
— Albert Einstein
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“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
— Albert Einstein
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“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
— Leonardo da Vinci
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