Society...Life...EXPERIENCE
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1458 P
“Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.”
— Aldous Huxley
EXPERIENCE, Attitude, Chance
1459 C
“Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde
EXPERIENCE, Errors, Failure
1460 PHA
“We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that was in it - and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well, but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.” — Mark Twain
EXPERIENCE, Wisdom, Knowledge, Errors, Fear
1461 H
“One thing about experience is that when you don’t have very much you’re apt to get a lot.”
— Franklin P. Jones
EXPERIENCE, Errors, Self-Confidence
1462
“He who proves things by experience increases his knowledge; he who believes blindly increases his errors.” — Chinese Proverb
EXPERIENCE, Errors, Knowledge, Faith
1463
“Each day is the scholar of yesterday.” — Publilius Syrus
EXPERIENCE, Knowledge, Wisdom
1464
“Success is a matter of buying your experience cheap and selling it at a profit.” — Unknown
EXPERIENCE, Wealth, Wisdom
1465 H
“Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.” — Hector Berlioz
EXPERIENCE, Personal Management
1466 A
“To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible
as it is to live without being born.” — A. P. Gouthey
EXPERIENCE, Reward, Wealth, Motivation, Fear
1467 C
“A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.” — E(dgar) W(atson) Howe
EXPERIENCE, Fear
1468 C
“He that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.” — Ben Jonson
EXPERIENCE, Ignorance, Knowledge
EXPERIENCE Cross-References
Potential—492 • Knowledge—529, 556 •
Wisdom—573, 581, 594 • Perception—614 • Vision—649 •
Age—1427-1429, 1441 • Change—1457
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