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"The Salmon of Doubt"
Quotations
Experience
Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore, they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either.
-Helen Keller "Helen Keller"
The reward of suffering is experience.
-Harry S. Truman
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
-George Washington
When a person with money meets a person with experience, the person with the experience winds up with the money and the person with the money winds up with the experience.
-Harvey McKay
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognize in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
-Ambrose Bierce
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
-Paulo Coelho
Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.
-Ambrose Bierce
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
-Kahlil Gibran "Kahlil Gibran"
Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire
