Experience Teaches Quotes
34 quotes by 30 authors
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In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.
— Christopher Lasch
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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…
— George Washington
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Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to…
— Sigmund Freud
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Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less…
— Milan Kundera
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Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
— James Anthony Froude
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I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are…
— Bob Dylan
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If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
— H. L. Mencken
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Cross cultural experience teaches us not simply that people have different beliefs, but that people seek meaning and understand themselves in some sense as members…
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
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Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
— Clifton Fadiman
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Experience teaches us at the expense of our illusions
— Aldous Huxley
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Every bitter experience teaches us a better lesson. Every pain builds us higher strength. Every obstacle leads us to higher ground. The very pain that…
— Ces Peta
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The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to…
— Elaine May
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