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Experience Quotes by Mark Twain
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. So many look to eradicate fear from their lives, when that is…
- We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.
- It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter…
- Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.
- Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use…
- All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity.
- As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them…
- The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.
- Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.
- What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can…
- Good judgment comes from experience. And where does experience come from? Experience comes from bad judgment.
- Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.
- Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book…
- Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else…
- My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
- A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will always be helpful. He isn't likely to grow dim or doubtful.…
- A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.
- If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
- Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
- 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…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most… — Thomas Jefferson
- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
- There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and qualities of… — Ansel Adams
- Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves… — Bernard Baruch
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience. — Paulo Coelho
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public. — Samuel Johnson