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Experience Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Happiness is enjoyed only in proportion as it is known; and such is the state or folly of man, that it is known only by…
- The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
- I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between…
- Judgment is forced upon us by experience
- I do not wonder that, where the monastick life is permitted, every order finds votaries, and every monastery inhabitants. Men will submit to any rule,…
- I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience;…
- What is easy is seldom excellent.
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise...Let…
- To have the management of the mind is a great art, and it may be attained in a considerable degree by experience and habitual exercise.
- The triumph of hope over experience.
- All theory is against free will; all experience is for it.
- All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.
- All theory is against the freedom of the will; all experience for it
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- The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. — Chinua Achebe
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- 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
- The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily… — Anthony Bourdain
- 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