15 Feb , 2011
We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school. Great short quote and quotation by: Peter De Vries ,
15 Feb , 2011
We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but […]
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15 Feb , 2011
We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have been in darkness. By the same token, we can experience joy because we have known sadness. Great short quote and quotation by: David Weatherford ,
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15 Feb , 2011
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face… we must do that which we think we cannot. Great short quote and quotation by: Eleanor Roosevelt , US diplomat & reformer (1884 – 1962)
15 Feb , 2011
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)
15 Feb , 2011
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)
15 Feb , 2011
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience. Great short quote and quotation by: George Washington , First president of US (1732 – 1799)
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15 Feb , 2011
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 cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again–and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a […]
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15 Feb , 2011
What a price we pay for experience, when we must sell our youth to buy it. Great short quote and quotation by: Javan ,
15 Feb , 2011
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings– they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner […]
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15 Feb , 2011
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real. Great short quote and quotation by: George Bernard Shaw , Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)
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E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic
15 Feb , 2011
When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… or any sort worth speaking about. I have […]
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