Gains Quote by Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Download Open image “What we gain by experience is not worth that we lose in illusion” — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gains Illusion Inspirational Loses Love
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired. — Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Our experience is composed rathery of illusions that of wisdom acquired. — Joseph Roux Copy Share Image
Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
To be boosted by an illusion is not to live better than to live in harmony with the truth ... these refusals to part… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The illusion holds power over you when you are not able to remember that you are a powerful spirit that has taken on the… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The wisest man may always learn something from the humblest peasant. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
It is not what we have but what we enjoy that constitutes our abundance. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Religion is the hospital of the souls that the world has wounded. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The weak-minded man is the slave of his vices and the dupe of his virtues. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
That experience which does not make us better makes us worse. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
It is only before those who are glad to hear it, and anxious to spread it, that we find it easy to speak ill… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn Copy Share Image
There is something more important than any ultimate weapon. That is the ultimate position-the position of total control over Earth that lies somewhere out… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The time that one gains cannot be accumulated in a storehouse; it is contradictory to want to save up existence, which, the fact is,… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Europe is creating the flight of refugees that's tearing it apart politically, and leading rightwing nationalist parties to gain power to withdraw from the… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
The poet reminds men of their uniqueness and it is not necessary to possess the ultimate definition of this uniqueness. Even to speculate is… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
Some people enjoy taking a light stroll in the morning and that gives them relief and that sort of feeling. That is what I… — Ichiro Suzuki Copy Share Image
