Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
—Havelock Ellis
Showing posts with label experience. Show all posts
Showing posts with label experience. Show all posts
Sunday, November 23, 2025
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Post #3275
The sailor speaks of winds, and the ploughman of oxen ; the soldier tells his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.
—Propertius
Tuesday, February 28, 2023
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Sunday, August 22, 2021
Post #3086
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
—Vernon Law
Sunday, August 08, 2021
Tuesday, May 15, 2018
Wednesday, March 07, 2018
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
Post #2073
Human experience, like the stern lights of a ship at sea, too often illuminates only the path we have passed over.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Tuesday, February 09, 2016
Post #2007
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.
—Terence
—Terence
Friday, October 10, 2014
Post #1660
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.
—Patrick Henry
Monday, August 04, 2014
Post #1611
Us old buzzards can spot a dying mouse from 10,000 feet up. Us old buzzards have the sharpest eyes in creation. Right now I'm studying the terrain.
—Senator Seabright Cooley (played by Charles Laughton in Advise and Consent)
—Senator Seabright Cooley (played by Charles Laughton in Advise and Consent)
Monday, July 28, 2014
Post #1606
I am of opinion that there is no proverb which is not true, because they are all sentences drawn from experience itself, the mother of all sciences.
—Miguel de Cervantes
—Miguel de Cervantes
Friday, September 13, 2013
Post #1342
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
—H.W. Shaw
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—H.W. Shaw
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Monday, September 02, 2013
Post #1331
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
—William Makepeace Thackeray
Tuesday, July 09, 2013
Post #1292
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
—Barry LePatner
—Barry LePatner
Friday, July 05, 2013
Post #1290
The poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
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—Ecclesiastes 9:16
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