“The only source of knowledge is experience.”
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“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”
“A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.”
“Experience teaches only the teachable.”
“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.”
“It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.”
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.”
“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.”
“Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”
“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.”
“Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty d--n good.”
“Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.”
“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.”
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
“There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.”
“Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?”
“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
“Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.”
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
“But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.”
“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.”
“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.”
“To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid.”
“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.”