I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the
lamp of experience.
Patrick Henry
Quotes , Source: in a speech at the Virginia Convention
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Experience is the teacher of fools.
[Lat., Stultorum eventus magister est.]
Titus Livy
Quotes , Source: Annales (XXII, 39)
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
Quotes , Source: Among My Books--Shakespeare Once More
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Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remain'd
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way,
And giv'st access, though secret she retire.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. IX, l. 807)
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What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
A message to him every wave can deliver
To teach him to creep till he knows how to climb.
John Boyle O'Reilly, LL.D.
Quotes , Source: Rules of the Road
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
[Lat., Nam in omnibus fere minus valent praecepta quam
experimenta.]
Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilian)
Quotes , Source: De Institutione Oratoria (II, 5, 5)
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Education is when you read the find print; experience is what you
get when you don't.
Pete Seeger
Quotes , Source: Loose Talk, by L. Botts
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Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Max Frisch
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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Jim Horning
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
F P Jones
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One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Alice James
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It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Bette Davis
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
James Boswell
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Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Rodin
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You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Albert Camus
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Dedicate some of your life to others. Your dedication will not be a sacrifice. It will be an exhilarating experience because it is an intense effort applied toward a meaningful end.
Dr Thomas Dooley
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If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius.
Joseph Addison
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