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Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. ~Alfred Sheinwold If you want to understand democracy, spend less time in the library with Plato, and more time in the buses with people. ~Simeon Strunsky Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators. ~A. Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) I've learned this — that if you're ever going to take on a challenge, you're going to take it on before you're ready. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com, 2018 You cannot help but learn more as you take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is an old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it. ~John Updike Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896 Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ~Pete Seeger Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. ~Søren Kierkegaard Looking back, you realize that everything would have explained itself if you had only stopped interrupting. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com [T]he person that had took a bull by the tail once had learnt sixty or seventy times as much as a person that hadn't, and said a person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful. ~Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. ~Chinese Proverb Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones. ~Josh Billings Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows. ~David T. Wolf A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts. ~Colette Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl. ~Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses, 1910 Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones. ~Author Unknown The problem is that when you get it, you're too damned old to do anything about it. ~Jimmy Connors, on experience In youth we learn; in age we understand. ~Marie Ebner-Eschenbach You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~Herb Caen Experience is the thorn-lined road to success. ~Terri Guillemets Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail. ~Mark van Doren As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. ~John Gardner Life, not the parson, teaches conduct. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars. ~Frederic Ridgely Torrence, The House of a Hundred Lights: A Psalm of Experience After Reading a Couplet of Bidpai, 1899 I learned more about economics from one South Dakota dust storm than I did in all my years in college. ~Hubert Humphrey, speech, 1960 The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com All that I know I learned after I was thirty. ~Georges Clemenceau There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience. ~Laurence J. Peter You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. ~Stephen King, The Stand The difference between education and know-how is that one you pay for, the other you charge for. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com Experience is climbing the ladder built from your mistakes. ~Terri Guillemets Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself. ~Thomas Jefferson The road to wisdom?—Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less. ~Piet Hein, "The Road to Wisdom" Life is trying things to see if they work. ~Ray Bradbury We have two lives — the one we learn with and the life we live after that. ~Bernard Malamud, The Natural You must learn to make the whole world your school. ~Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962) We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us. ~Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu Anything we tell our kids about life is a placemarker until they figure it out for themselves. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com If we could sell our experiences for what they cost us, we'd all be millionaires. ~Abigail Van Buren Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. ~Clarence Day, The Crow's Nest
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