“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked”
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“Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked”
“Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost”
“Error is discipline through which we advance”
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict”
“A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it”
“Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some ”
“I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me”
“What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?”
“What worries you, masters you”
“There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men, who talk in a road, according to the notions they have borrowed and the prejudices of their education.”
“No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience”
“We study ourselves three weeks, we love each other three months, we squabble three years, we tolerate each other thirty years, and then the children start all over again”
“The things we really know are not the things we have merely read about or heard about, but the things we have lived, have experienced, have been sensible of”
“Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived it”
“Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.”
“If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.”
“We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.”