"Experience is a poor guide to man, and……" — H. L. Mencken
"Experience is a poor guide to man, and is seldom followed. What really teaches a man is not experience, but observation."
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H. L. Mencken
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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site.
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them…
— Hannah Arendt
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For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
— Bashar al-Assad
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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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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People from different parts of the world can respond to the same story if it says something to them about…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
— Saint Augustine
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My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find…
— Saint Augustine
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To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
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