“Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.”
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“Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.”
“Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.”
“The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.”
“Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.”
“I don't have to have faith, I have experience.”
“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.”
“Our DNA is as a consumer company - for that individual customer who's voting thumbs up or thumbs down. That's who we think about. And we think that our job is to take responsibility for the complete user experience. And if it's not up to par, it's our fault, plain and simply.”
“I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.”
“The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.”
“I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.”
“Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself.”
“How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.”
“Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.”
“From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.”
“When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.”
“Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.”
“I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.”
“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”
“Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.”
“In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.”
“Enthusiasm - a distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.”
“Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.”
“Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.”