"Direct experience is inherently too limited to form……" — B. H. Liddell Hart
"Direct experience is inherently too limited to form an adequate foundation either for theory or for application. At the best it produces an atmosphere that is of value in drying and hardening the structure of thought. The greater value of indirect experience lies in its greater variety and extent. History is universal experience, the experience not of another, but of many others under manifold conditions."
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B. H. Liddell Hart
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